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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 09:57:40 +0200
From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: dieter <dieter@handshake.de>
Subject: Re: rpath alike feature for python scripts
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On Sat, Jul 26, dieter wrote:

> The "binary" corresponds to a script. The script could have
> a function "setup_path" which enhances "sys.path" as appropriate
> and ensure that this function is called near its beginning.

Yes, but how does it obtain the required values? In other words, at
buildtime /some/where is known because its the --prefix= value.
How does it know the remainder?

+sys.path.insert(0, "/some/where/lib64/python2.6/site-packages")


Olaf