Python install paths

Python install paths

[Efraim Flashner]

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I've been working slowly on getting onionshare packaged, and I've run
into a problem with the install phase. Normally everything just works,
but our --prefix=%out doesn't seem to overide the sys.prefix install
path in some setup.py files. The one in onionshare has some that look
like this:
(os.path.join(sys.prefix, 'share/applications'), ['install/onionshare.desktop']),
https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare/blob/master/setup.py

I've tried using substitute to switch 'sys.prefix' to %out, and it
installs but the program can't seem to find the files its looking for,
notably the locales.

Has anyone else run into problems like this and figured something out?


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Re: Python install paths

[Efraim Flashner]

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On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:27:13PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> I've been working slowly on getting onionshare packaged, and I've run
> into a problem with the install phase. Normally everything just works,
> but our --prefix=%out doesn't seem to overide the sys.prefix install
> path in some setup.py files. The one in onionshare has some that look
> like this:
> (os.path.join(sys.prefix, 'share/applications'), ['install/onionshare.desktop']),
> https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare/blob/master/setup.py
> 
> I've tried using substitute to switch 'sys.prefix' to %out, and it
> installs but the program can't seem to find the files its looking for,
> notably the locales.
> 
> Has anyone else run into problems like this and figured something out?
> 

I found this page¹ that, while targeted at python-2, still worked as a
template for creating a patch for setup.py to make all the files install
in the correct prefix.

¹ https://docs.python.org/2/distutils/setupscript.html#installing-additional-files


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