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authorJohan Dahlin <johan@src.gnome.org>2004-08-10 20:22:19 +0000
committerJohan Dahlin <johan@src.gnome.org>2004-08-10 20:22:19 +0000
commite419b14a8279429411015772a77eefcc087df58d (patch)
tree6c4629c2f689003d6178081b41e42cffd3490deb /README
parent783ec077352a4a89c53bf7e4c46ed8c5dcbf92e6 (diff)
downloadpygtk-e419b14a8279429411015772a77eefcc087df58d.tar.gz
Disable distutils for Linux and update README
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@@ -70,23 +70,12 @@ of the interpreter:
$ PYTHON=/prefix/bin/python
$ export PYTHON
-If configure can't find GTK, you may need to set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+If configure can't find GTK+, you may need to set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
environment variable to help it find the libraries.
The "make install" target will generate normal and optimised bytecode
for all the .py files.
-As an alternative, pygtk also ships with a distutils setup.py script,
-that may make compilation easier on some platforms. It's invoked by
-typing:
-
- $ python setup.py build
- $ python setup.py install
-
-Optionally a --prefix argument can be specified to install.
-Note, this is unsupported and is primarily there to support Win32
-environments. The configure script is still the preferred way.
-
Note. If you're installing to another prefix than the one where python
is installed you'll need to set the PYTHONPATH variable to the
$prefix/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages directory created by