[Nexus-developers] 4.0rc2

[Mark Koennecke]

Hi,

Akeroyd, FA (Freddie) schrieb:
> Actually, we could support both by testing whether the --with argument
> is a directory or executable file. Does that sound best?
>
>   
If it is not to much of an effort, this would be the most user friendly 
solution.
         
              Mark

> Freddie
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:nexus-developers-bounces at nexusformat.org] On Behalf Of Akeroyd,
> FA (Freddie)
> Sent: 30 March 2007 14:25
> To: nexus-developers at nexusformat.org
> Subject: Re: [Nexus-developers] 4.0rc2
>
> For python, I wasn't sure what a user would expect to type most
> naturally. In the past we have given the directory root to --with so you
> would type
>
>   ./configure --with-python=/usr/local
>
> For python installed in /usr/local/{bin,include} etc.
>
> Looking on the web, it seemed that 
>
>   ./configure --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python
>
> was more the norm; however that currently means we have both methods
> present amongst our bindings configuration. Which do people feel would
> be the most logical/natural to use across them all?
>
> Freddie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nexus-developers-bounces at nexusformat.org
> [mailto:nexus-developers-bounces at nexusformat.org] On Behalf Of Mark
> Koennecke
> Sent: 30 March 2007 14:12
> To: nexus-developers at nexusformat.org
> Subject: Re: [Nexus-developers] 4.0rc2
>
> Hi,
>
> Akeroyd, FA (Freddie) schrieb:
>   
>> Mark,
>>
>> --with-python should be passed the name of the python interpreter
>>     
> itself
>   
>> (not a directory) and PYTHONROOT is determined by doing a "which" on
>> this to get the directory and then adding "..". So
>>   
>>     
> Sorry, this did the trick. It even is documented. O just got confused by
>
> the fact that for other
> swig targets it says installation directory whena doing a ./configure  
> --help, for instance  for Tcl.
> I noticed that the same as for python worked for tcl too. Is this the 
> new way to do this?
>
>                         Mark
>
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