[MOAB-dev] r3046 - MOAB/trunk/tools/iMesh/python

[Jason Kraftcheck]

James Porter wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 12:43 +0200, Jed Brown wrote:
>> Thanks.  I haven't checked if it's possible to make the current system
>> do this, but the python stuff is being installed to $PREFIX/lib instead
>> of $PREFIX/lib/python2.6/site-packages where it belongs (at least by
>> default, that's how other python packages work).
> 
> I'm just going to remove the "--install-lib" option for now so that
> distutils installs the libs to wherever it thinks it should. It reduces
> somewhat the ability for people to customize their installs via
> configure, but I'd rather the installation be less customizable as
> opposed to just plain wrong.
> 
> Perhaps a better long-term solution would be separate "--FOOdir" options
> for installing Python, but I'm not sure how that should work yet.
> 

Perhaps it would be better to do the following?
  --install-lib=$(libdir)/python$(py_version)/site-packages

- jason