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[inkblotter <inkbottle@xxxxxxxxx>]

OK,  that passed  by me somehow. Thanks for pointing that out

On 12/30/2014 04:57 AM, LordBlick wrote:
> In response to a message written on 30.12.2014, 05:30, from inkblotter:
> > I have my own pet peeve to complain about.  I have a directory in my 
> > HOME
> > director called 'sitepkgs'. This directory is on my PYTHON_PATH and 
> > indeed I
> > can Import kicad packages in python. But, when I do a make install after
> > doing a make clean && make -j10 I do a make install, which always fails
> > because pcbnew/cmake_install.cmake  insists on looking in
> > /usr/lib/site-packages when it should be looking in ~/sitepkgs. So I 
> > edit
> > that file and replace the offending lines and then I do not need to 
> > be root
> > to install a kicad build.  I first think about kicad looking in the 
> > variable
> > PYTHON_PATH but I reject that since the PYTHON_PATH can include many 
> > paths,
> > not just one.  Would you consider yet another cmake variable like
> > -DKICAD_SITE_PKGS=<some path>?  Then people like me could use that 
> > flag and
> > everyone else could use the default. This has the effect that one 
> > need not
> > install as root to install kicad.
> This already exist since around rev. 5148 - 
> -DPYTHON_SITE_PACKAGE_PATH=<pypath> and earlier was 
> -DPYTHON_DEST=<pypath>