"make install" equivalent for i-pi

[ltalirz]

Hi @venkatkapil24 ,

as part of an effort to make our ansible roles more "standard", I'm transforming the roles for codes such that they install the codes directly to the /usr/local/ prefix by default (so that all users of the VM/server can use them).

By convention, this is usually achieved by a ./configure --prefix=/usr/local, followed by make; make install.
I notice that i-pi does not seem to have such a mechanism (?)

So, I'm wondering: is it enough to simply copy the driver.x executable to /usr/local/bin/ or do I need to do more?

By the way, it might make sense to call this executable something more specific than driver.x.

[ltalirz]

ah sorry, now I realize that it should actually be the files in the /bin/ directory, correct?
I.e. cp i-pi/bin/* /usr/local/bin/

[ltalirz]

In this case I'm getting

$ i-pi
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/i-pi", line 30, in <module>
    from ipi.utils.softexit import softexit
ImportError: No module named ipi.utils.softexit

so I guess, now, sourcing the env script becomes necessary?

See branch global-install

[venkatkapil24]

Yeah, the base directory of i-pi should be added to PYTHONPATH.