vte widget port and Python extensions

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 14:30 +0000, ali wrote:
> On 29/08/05 04:51:16, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 12:14 +0000, ali wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Thank-you for maintaining this port. I recently had a slight problem
> > 
> > > installing the Python extensions.
> > >
> > > I set the --enable-python configure argument in the Makefile, and
> > made
> > > the port and installed it. Unfortunately the Python extension cannot
> > be
> > > used because Python can't find the library.
> > >
> > > The Python extension was installed to:
> > >
> > > /usr/X11R6/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/vtemodule.so
> > >
> > > where the other GTK2 C Python extensions are installed to:
> > >
> > > /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/
> > >
> > > and moving the file to that location allows Python to find it.
> > >
> > > (I guess there may be a reason to put this in the /usr/X11R6 tree
> > > instead of the /usr/local tree.)
> > >
> > > I would love to fix this and send you a patch but I am very
> > > inexperienced with ports and BSD, I shall do anything I can to help
> > 
> > > though.
> > 
> > In order for the extensions to work, the port will need to be hacked
> > to
> > install the Python bits under LOCALBASE (much the way net/gaim
> > installs
> > its Perl bits).  You could probably use gaim as sort of a model.
> 
> Well, I have found where the variable is set, and I have a working  
> Makefile that uses the WITH_PYTHON variable to decide whether to  
> compile the Python extensions. I am an utter newbie in these things, so  
> my apologies if something is wrong.

The is very wrong.  Setting @pyexecdir@ in the port's Makefile will have
no effect.  You'll want to either patch the right Makefile.in in the
distribution, or convert this into a REINPLACE regexp.  For example:

@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|@pyexecdir@|${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR}|g' \
	${WRKSRC}/path/to/Makefile.in

You will also need to update the pkg-plist with the files that get
installed by enabling Python support.

Joe

> 
> I have attached a patch for the Makefile.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Ali
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