Install shared objects into site-packages

[Li-Wen Hsu]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 11:03:01 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Li-Wen Hsu wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:42, Sean C. Farley <scf at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> I am using virtualenv --no-site-packages (the default now) to be able 
> >> to build an environment on both FreeBSD and Linux.  The issue I am 
> >> running into is that _sqlite3.so from databases/py-sqlite3 is being 
> >> installed into site-packages as opposed to lib-dynload.  On the 
> >> CentOS we are using, _sqlite3.so is installed in lib-dynload.
> >>
> >> I tried a bit to change the port's setup.py, but I have not been 
> >> successful.  How can databases/py-sqlite3 and other ports that are 
> >> typically part of Python by default be made to install into 
> >> lib-dynload?
> >>
> >> These are the one that lang/python27 disables:
> >> disabled_module_list = ["_bsddb", "_sqlite3", "_tkinter", "gdbm", "mpz"]
> >
> > Hi Sean,
> >
> > After reading databases/py-sqlite3/Makeilfe from NetBSD's pkgsrc, I 
> > have this patch:
> >
> >    http://people.freebsd.org/~lwhsu/patch/py-sqlite3__lib-dynload.diff
> >
> > Due to time constraint, I haven't test it with virtualenv, please tell 
> > me if it works.
> >
> > I think changing the install destination of these built-in modules to 
> > the default position is right direction.  But this patch is not a good 
> > solution, we need to handle PYDISTUTILS_INSTALLARGS better instead of 
> > putting between bsd.port.{pre,post}.mk .  Please tell me if there is a 
> > better way to do this.  Thanks.
> 
> It works.  Thank you!
> 
> I do not know a better way to do it.  I tried a few things with 
> files/setup.py to get it to install within lib-dynload but was 
> unsuccessful.  If an environment variable would take care of the 
> install-lib option, then maybe putting something into MAKE_ENV?

That's great!

Okay, the question is actually to all the readers of freebsd-python
list.  So please please try to help python infrastructure.  I'll try
to find a better solution of this issue (and other jRs under python at .)

Li-Wen

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Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu at FreeBSD.org>
http://lwhsu.org
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