python installation directory

[dstahlke]

The python swig bindings seem to have improper logic with regards to the installation directory. If I run

./configure --prefix=/opt/gdal-1.7.2 --with-python ...etc..

Then "make install" in swig/python tries to install into the system python directory /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/. Now, if I edit swig/python/GNUMakefile and replace

ifeq ($(PY_HAVE_SETUPTOOLS),1)
    $(PYTHON) setup.py install
else
    $(PYTHON) setup.py install --prefix=$(DESTDIR)$(prefix)
endif

with

#ifeq ($(PY_HAVE_SETUPTOOLS),1)
#    $(PYTHON) setup.py install
#else
    $(PYTHON) setup.py install --prefix=$(DESTDIR)$(prefix)
#endif

then it tries to install into /opt/gdal-1.7.2/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/ but fails because it doesn't exist. After running

mkdir -p /opt/gdal-1.7.2/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/

make install will run correctly.

[Markus Neteler]

Same prefix issue on Scientific Linux (and I cannot manually modify Makefiles on a production system...).

Same issue reported in #4563

[Jukka Rahkonen]

I close this as duplicate and leave #4563 open because it has more comments.