Re: [Xen-devel] make dist and python files

[Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@xxxxxxxxx>]

Keir Fraser wrote:
> > So my question is, why not have
> >
> > # make dist
> >
> > also populate
> >
> > dist/install/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/xen
> >
> > Of course, this won't work for situations where the build machine and 
> > the target machine have a different version of python.
>
> Exactly.
>
> All our tools add /lib/python to their library search path, so if you
> install by copying to dist/* to / then things will work -- no need to
> manually add /lib/python to your search path.
Then why not have just one place to install files for both the install 
and dist targets?
Also, I wonder what the distro hackers and FHS experts on the list have 
to say about the target directory (/lib/python)?
        -Arun


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