[gdal-dev] Installation prefix for Python bindings on MacOSX ?

[William Kyngesburye]

That looks like it should work.  I'm only just getting around to looking at GDAL 2, so I don't know when I'll get a chance to test that.

On Sep 20, 2015, at 11:58 AM, Antonio Valentino <antonio.valentino at tiscali.it> wrote:

> Hi Even, hi William,
> I have just opened a new PR on github (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/68).
> It should restore the old behavior if the standard system interpreted is used on OSX.
> It should also work with homebrew etc. that uses the classic unix schema for python packages installation.
> 
> Please let me know if it work for you.
> 
> 
> cheers
> 
> --
> Antonio Valentino
> 
> 
> 
>> Il giorno 20/set/2015, alle ore 18:02, William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com> ha scritto:
>> 
>> I tried the bit there that gets the python path (get_python_lb), and it works to get the OS X user path if there is no arg, ie get_python_lib().
>> 
>> For OS X is that the python user path is independent of the installation prefix.
>> 
>> For the logic, one basic method in a makefile I can think of for detecting OS X is to check uname for Darwin.  Note that the python path is also independent on whether an OS X framework (MACOSX_FRAMEWORK) or unix library is built, so don't use MACOSX_FRAMEWORK to test for OS X.
>> 
>> On Sep 20, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Le dimanche 20 septembre 2015 17:24:18, William Kyngesburye a écrit :
>>>> /Library/Python/[version]/site-packages is the standard user path for OS X.
>>>> /usr/lib is not in the python path.  Even if you add /usr/lib to the
>>>> Travis setup, the installation will still be broken for general use.
>>> 
>>> ok, thanks for the feedback William. So I guess we have to figure how to revert
>>> to the old behaviour on OS X then ? Any idea ? The changeset is
>>> https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/changeset/30564
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sep 20, 2015, at 10:09 AM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Antonio has contributed a fix in https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/4563
>>>>> to make the Python bindings honour the installation prefix.
>>>>> 
>>>>> A side effect of this is that now on the MacOsX Travis instance, they are
>>>>> installed in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages whereas previously they
>>>>> were installed in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages
>>>>> But it appears that they are not found automatically when in
>>>>> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages. Is it expected ? Should we define
>>>>> PYTHONPATH to /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages in thre Travis script (
>>>>> https://github.com/rouault/gdal_coverage/blob/trunk_travis_macosx/.travis
>>>>> .yml )
>>>>> 
>>>>> Before change:
>>>>> https://travis-ci.org/rouault/gdal_coverage/builds/81193480 New
>>>>> behaviour: ​https://travis-ci.org/rouault/gdal_coverage/builds/81242249
>>>>> 
>>>>> Even
>>>> 
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