Python site packages

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Jan 17 21:25:21 UTC 2013


On Thursday 17 January 2013 at 22:14:48, Christophe Giboudeaux wrote:
> Well, this is exactly what this option fixed.
> The previous behaviour was just wrong: Files should never be installed
> outside CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX by default.
> 
> Packagers shall use INSTALL_PYTHON_FILES_IN_PYTHON_PREFIX if their python
> packages are built with exotic paths.

Maybe a reasonable strategy would be to default to 
INSTALL_PYTHON_FILES_IN_PYTHON_PREFIX if PREFIX is /usr?

        Kevin Kofler


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