2016-01-08 16:43 GMT+01:00 Clemens Koller <c...@embeon.de>: > Hello, Wayne, Kyle! > > [CC: to Arch Kicad package maintainer] > > On 2016-01-08 16:21, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> I figured out your issue. Unfortunately when you install from source, >> the python modules are always installed in the python site package path >> which will fail without root privileges on linux distros. > > Okay. > >> You may have missed the python module install failure. > > Likely, will have to look again. > >> We may want to rethink this >> in the future but that is a can of worms I don't want to tackle right >> now because it has the potential to break our automated package builds. > > Thank you for analysing this... So: heads-up here! > I am currently fine building kicad without the scripting features, > where everything looks normal for me. > > Maybe this issue should be documented somewhere for the > distro-packagers before they run into the annoyance when they > enable the scripting feature.
Distro packagers are supposed to enable scripting, and when they generate a package it is installed in the proper location for python. AFIK Anyway, I did write to keenerd that the scripting is supposed to be enabled. But it does not seem he is the last packager at the moment. > Currently, there seems to be no issue in the "official" Arch package: > > https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/kicad > > but: > > cmake ... -DKICAD_SCRIPTING=ON -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON > -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON ... > might need a manual workaround because the python modules are always installed > in the python site package path which will fail without root privileges on > linux distros. > >> You have two options. Run make install using sudo or manually copy the >> python modules somewhere in your home folder and use the PYTHONPATH >> environment variable to add your custom path to Python so it can find >> the pcbnew python modules. > > Thanks, I choose the third option for now: Not use scripting. > > Regards, > > Clemens > >> On 1/8/2016 9:50 AM, Clemens Koller wrote: >>> I feel like spamming the list with my noise ;-) >>> >>> On 2016-01-08 15:39, jp charras wrote: >>>> Looks like pcbnew.py (and perhaps _pcbnew.pyc) is not found ( not copied >>>> to the right folder). >>> >>> That's what ended up in the bin directory: >>> >>> $ pwd >>> /home/admin/SW/bin >>> $ ls -la >>> total 40984 >>> drwxr-xr-x 2 admin admin 4096 Jan 8 15:32 . >>> drwxr-xr-x 5 admin admin 4096 Jan 8 15:32 .. >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 1080168 Jan 8 15:25 bitmap2component >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 6476080 Jan 8 15:28 _cvpcb.kiface >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 847080 Jan 8 15:22 dxf2idf >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 509792 Jan 8 15:32 eeschema >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 7028544 Jan 8 15:31 _eeschema.kiface >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 509184 Jan 8 15:28 gerbview >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 2959320 Jan 8 15:28 _gerbview.kiface >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 391184 Jan 8 15:22 idf2vrml >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 24968 Jan 8 15:22 idfcyl >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 16392 Jan 8 15:22 idfrect >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 1196304 Jan 8 15:26 kicad >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 509184 Jan 8 15:28 pcb_calculator >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 2160920 Jan 8 15:26 _pcb_calculator.kiface >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 511384 Jan 8 15:32 pcbnew >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 14602320 Jan 8 15:32 _pcbnew.kiface >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 509792 Jan 8 15:28 pl_editor >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 2588016 Jan 8 15:26 _pl_editor.kiface >>> $ >>> >>> Clemens >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
