[Zope] Confusion over INST_HOME and INSTANCE_HOME

[Tony McDonald]

On 27/6/01 6:37 pm, "Evan Simpson" <evan@4-am.com> wrote:

> From: "Tony McDonald" <tony.mcdonald@ncl.ac.uk>
>> PYTHONHOME=/home/zope/Zope-2.3.3-src
>> export PYTHONHOME
>> exec /usr/local/bin/python2.1  $PYTHONHOME/z2.py "$@"
>> 
>> Gives an import error
>> 243 % ./start
>> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> 
> The environment variable PYTHONHOME is meaningful to Python 2.0 and
> above, and causes this error.  That's why "start" scripts generated
> under these versions use "INST_HOME" instead.  The name is an
> unfortunate coincidence, and has nothing to do with "INSTANCE_HOME", so
> just edit your scripts to use a different name in place of "PYTHONHOME".
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Evan @ digicool & 4-am
> 
> 

Sorry for the late reply Evan,

That is *excellent* - the 'start' file here works...

#! /bin/sh
reldir=`dirname $0`
INSTANCE_HOME=`cd $reldir; pwd`
export INSTANCE_HOME
WHERE_ZOPE_LIVES=/home/zope/Zope-2.3.3-src
export WHERE_ZOPE_LIVES
LD_LIBRARY_PATH='/usr/local/lib/:/usr/lib:/usr/local/ssl/lib:/usr/local/lib/
mysql'
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
exec /usr/local/bin/python2.1  $WHERE_ZOPE_LIVES/z2.py "$@"

I wouldn't have found that for a bl**dy long time ;)

Cheers again
Tone.
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