Commit 66137344feb488ea87b0d92f3c03844d9a7a7786 changed the Python
detection mechanism in configure. This results in a changed install
location for the Python bindings at least on Fedora 12 64bit systems.
For the explanation below I assume a Fedora 12 64bit systems, libvirt
is configured with prefix /usr and Python 2.6 is installed.
Before this commit libvirt.py and libvirtmod.so were installed to
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages. After this commit both are
installed to /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages. This is at least wrong
for libvirtmod.so, as it should be installed to
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages on a 64bit system.
Before this commit pythondir was set manually to
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages and python/Makefile.am contains
'python_LTLIBRARIES = libvirtmod.la' that results in installing
libvirtmod.so to pythondir.
AM_PATH_PYTHON defines two variables: pythondir and pyexecdir. But
according to the AM_PATH_PYTHON documentation [1] pythondir is the
directory where Python scripts should be installed.
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages in this case, because Python scripts
are not architecture dependent in general. pyexecdir is the directory
where Python extension modules (shared libraries) should be installed.
AM_PATH_PYTHON detects pyexecdir correctly as
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages, but python/Makefile.am contains
'python_LTLIBRARIES = libvirtmod.la' that results in installing
libvirtmod.so to pythondir.
So python/Makefile.am must be changed:
diff --git a/python/Makefile.am b/python/Makefile.am
index 736631e..04342b7 100644
--- a/python/Makefile.am
+++ b/python/Makefile.am
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ mylibs = $(top_builddir)/src/libvirt.la
all-local: libvirt.py
-python_LTLIBRARIES = libvirtmod.la
+pyexec_LTLIBRARIES = libvirtmod.la
libvirtmod_la_SOURCES = libvirt-override.c typewrappers.c libvirt.c libvirt.h
# Python <= 2.4 header files contain a redundant decl, hence we
Now libvirtmod.so is installed to the correct directory:
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages
But libvirt.py gets installed to /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages,
this is different from the installation directory before the commit.
A default Fedora 12 64bit installation has *.py files installed to
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages and
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages. By looking at both directories the
policy it pretty obvious: Packages that are pure Python go to
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages and packages that are mixed (Python
and shared libraries) go completely to
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages.
So we restore the behavior from before the commit completely by
applying this additional patch:
diff --git a/python/Makefile.am b/python/Makefile.am
index 736631e..04342b7 100644
--- a/python/Makefile.am
+++ b/python/Makefile.am
@@ -60,14 +60,14 @@ $(GENERATED): generated.stamp
$(libvirtmod_la_OBJECTS): $(GENERATED)
install-data-local:
- $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(pythondir)
- @INSTALL@ -m 0644 libvirt.py $(DESTDIR)$(pythondir)
+ $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(pyexecdir)
+ @INSTALL@ -m 0644 libvirt.py $(DESTDIR)$(pyexecdir)
$(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(DOCS_DIR)
@(for doc in $(DOCS) ; \
do @INSTALL@ -m 0644 $$doc $(DESTDIR)$(DOCS_DIR) ; done)
uninstall-local:
- rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(pythondir)/libvirt.py
+ rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(pyexecdir)/libvirt.py
CLEANFILES= $(GENERATED) generated.stamp
I discussed this with Daniel Veillard on IRC and there was some
confusion what the actual problem was and how to solve it, so I wanted
to recap it here.
Also thanks to Daniel Hokka Zakrisson, who gave the important hint
about pythondir vs pyexecdir on IRC.
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/automake/Python.html
Matthias
From 1f5083be1dcbf6877dfbae44e9ea4e50ebaec708 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Bolte <matthias.bo...@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:11:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix install location for Python bindings
Commit 66137344feb488ea87b0d92f3c03844d9a7a7786 changed the Python detection
mechanism in configure to use AM_PATH_PYTHON. This results in a changed
install location for the Python bindings, at least on Fedora 12 64bit systems.
Before this commit libvirt.py and libvirtmod.so were installed to
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages
After this commit they are installed to
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages
Mixed Python packages (containing *.py and *.so files) should be installed to
the pyexecdir directory detected by AM_PATH_PYTHON.
This restores the install location from before the AM_PATH_PYTHON commit.
* configure.in: remove unnecessary pythondir export
* python/Makefile.am: switch from pythondir to pyexecdir
---
configure.in | 2 --
python/Makefile.am | 8 ++++----
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index fe9834d..d80cebf 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1443,7 +1443,6 @@ AC_ARG_WITH([python],
PYTHON_VERSION=
PYTHON_INCLUDES=
-pythondir=
if test "$with_python" != "no" ; then
if test -x "$with_python/bin/python"
then
@@ -1505,7 +1504,6 @@ fi
AM_CONDITIONAL([WITH_PYTHON], [test "$with_python" = "yes"])
AC_SUBST([PYTHON_VERSION])
AC_SUBST([PYTHON_INCLUDES])
-AC_SUBST([pythondir])
diff --git a/python/Makefile.am b/python/Makefile.am
index 736631e..04342b7 100644
--- a/python/Makefile.am
+++ b/python/Makefile.am
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ mylibs = $(top_builddir)/src/libvirt.la
all-local: libvirt.py
-python_LTLIBRARIES = libvirtmod.la
+pyexec_LTLIBRARIES = libvirtmod.la
libvirtmod_la_SOURCES = libvirt-override.c typewrappers.c libvirt.c libvirt.h
# Python <= 2.4 header files contain a redundant decl, hence we
@@ -60,14 +60,14 @@ $(GENERATED): generated.stamp
$(libvirtmod_la_OBJECTS): $(GENERATED)
install-data-local:
- $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(pythondir)
- @INSTALL@ -m 0644 libvirt.py $(DESTDIR)$(pythondir)
+ $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(pyexecdir)
+ @INSTALL@ -m 0644 libvirt.py $(DESTDIR)$(pyexecdir)
$(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(DOCS_DIR)
@(for doc in $(DOCS) ; \
do @INSTALL@ -m 0644 $$doc $(DESTDIR)$(DOCS_DIR) ; done)
uninstall-local:
- rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(pythondir)/libvirt.py
+ rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(pyexecdir)/libvirt.py
CLEANFILES= $(GENERATED) generated.stamp
--
1.6.0.4
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