Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools: simplify install of python "binaries"

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christoph Egger writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools: simplify install of python 
"binaries""):
> Attached patch simplifies install of python "binaries".
> Get rid of get-path.

I don't think this is correct.

The purpose of the code you are removing here is to find out what the
compile-time python version is, and then hardcode that into the #!
line of the installed python scripts.

So if you compile with PYTHON=python2.4 or with PYTHON unset on a
system where `python' from the path is 2.4, you generate in
dist/install/ (a) python modules in .../site-packages/python2.4 and
(b) scripts starting #!/usr/bin/python2.4

If you don't do this then the script starts #!/usr/bin/python and if
by then python 2.5 is installed, it won't find the modules.

Nacked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Ian.

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