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[Svenn Are Bjerkem <svenn.bjerkem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2 January 2013 13:21, Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Svenn Are Bjerkem
> <svenn.bjerkem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have done some small modifications to the base zim code, and would
>> like to test the code without installing it.
>> If I try to start the zim in the scripts directory, it picks up the
>> installed zim modules and not the ones in the build directory.
>
> This is odd. If you run the "zim.py" from the source directory it
> should pick the libraries from the same location.
>
> (Btw. assume you mean the source directory when you taks about the
> "build directory" - the is no need to actually build when running from
> sources.)

If I run python setup.py build, a new directory, build, will be
created, and inside this directory the script and lib directories are
created. I didn't think of running directly out of the source
directory.

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Svenn