Python --install-data

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

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The attached recipe fails with the following output:

...
starting phase `build'
running "python setup.py" with command "build" and parameters ()
running build
...
phase `build' succeeded after 0 seconds
starting phase `check'
running "python setup.py" with command "test" and parameters ()
running test
phase `check' succeeded after 1 seconds
starting phase `install'
running "python setup.py" with command "install" and parameters ("--prefix=/nix/store/5412ag0jg15k7gnd2z4ardg735iawr8l-aarddict-0.9.3" "--install-data=/nix/store/5412ag0jg15k7gnd2z4ardg735iawr8l-aarddict-0.9.3")
running install
...
byte-compiling build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/tests/test_config.py to test_config.pyc
byte-compiling build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/tests/test_checksum.py to test_checksum.pyc
byte-compiling build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/tests/__init__.py to __init__.pyc
installing package data to build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg
running install_data
creating /nix/store/a1x98y7y83j4x4d4pk21w9m4f60dgs9r-python-2.7.5/share/icons
error: could not create '/nix/store/a1x98y7y83j4x4d4pk21w9m4f60dgs9r-python-2.7.5/share/icons': Permission denied
phase `install' failed after 2 seconds

Apparently, install_data tries to write into the python directory, although
a different prefix is given; later, I also added the "--install-data"
configure flag, the behaviour is the same in both cases.

Does any of the python gurus understand the problem?

Andreas


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;;; Copyright © 2013 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
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(define-module (gnu packages aarddict)
  #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:select (gpl3))
  #:use-module (guix packages)
  #:use-module (guix download)
  #:use-module (guix build-system python)
  #:use-module (gnu packages python))

(define-public aarddict
  (package
    (name "aarddict")
    (version "0.9.3")
    (source
     (origin
      (method url-fetch)
      (uri (string-append "https://github.com/aarddict/desktop/archive/"
                          version ".tar.gz"))
      (sha256
       (base32
        "12h7m0z7nd7rg8avpi9syd265k0rhh4vbdh464nq0jzdg8m9p28c"))))
    (build-system python-build-system)
    (inputs
     `(("python2-pyicu" ,python2-pyicu)
       ("python2-setuptools" ,python2-setuptools)
       ("python2-simplejson" ,python2-simplejson)))
    (arguments
     `(#:python ,python-2 ; incompatible with Python 3
       #:configure-flags (list (string-append "--install-data=" %output))))
    (home-page "http://aarddict.org/index.html")
    (synopsis
     "Dictionary program and offline Wikipedia reader")
    (description
     "Aard Dictionary is a free, fast, easy to use word lookup program that
looks up words fast even with huge dictionaries like English Wikipedia;
looks up words in multiple dictionaries in multiple languages without
switching;
works great as offline Wikipedia reader;
is keyboard navigation friendly;
has efficient, highly compressed dictionary data storage format with
ability to verify data integrity built-in.")
    (license gpl3)))