From: Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko@zooko.com>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 02:17:51 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: add note to GNUmakefile that we append instdir instead of prepending for a good reason
X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-0.2.0~42
X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/quickstart.html?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3b17e2a5792ee66232b5487f3393f35ddcf996c8;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git

add note to GNUmakefile that we append instdir instead of prepending for a good reason
---

diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile
index 3fa3bd0b..98753593 100644
--- a/GNUmakefile
+++ b/GNUmakefile
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ else
  endif
 endif
 
+# Append instdir/lib instead of prepending it so that people can override
+# things from lib with alternate packages of their choosing by setting their
+# PYTHONPATH.
+
 ifneq ($(PYTHONPATH),)
 PYTHONPATH := "$(PYTHONPATH)$(PATHSEP)$(INSTDIR)/lib"
 else