Re: pkg/42691 (net/bittorrent fails to build (installs too many files))

[Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost>]

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From: Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost>
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Subject: Re: pkg/42691 (net/bittorrent fails to build (installs too many
 files))
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:33:57 +0100

 On Fri 29 Jan 2010 at 16:30:04 +0000, Rhialto wrote:
 >  Next I'll try cleaning out the chroot, since it has built almost all
 >  binary packages already anyway, and install bittorrent from a hopefully
 >  clean start.
 
 And then, the files don't get installed! And I think I see a
 difference, too.
 
 At the start of the build, after the long line ending in
 "/usr/pkg/bin/python2.5  setup.py build )" that supposedly runs
 setup.py, there is an extra line of output:
 
 extra: python: not found
        running build
        running build_py
 
 This may be caused by the first line of setup.py being
 
     #!/usr/bin/env python
 
 but there is no python, only python2.5.
 
 Apparently, previously I did have a /usr/pkg/bin/python, and the one in
 my main system is a wrapper script from pkg_alternatives, although the
 pkg database denies knowledge of which pkg has installed it.
 
 So explicitly calling "python2.5 setup.py" to be explicit about the
 python interpreter isn't sufficient, but even fixing the #! line
 isn't enough (???).
 
 pkg_comp:default.conf# python2.5 setup.py                                      
 python: not found
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File 
"/pkg_comp/obj/pkgsrc/net/bittorrent/default/BitTorrent-4.4.0/BitTorrent/platform.py",
 line 383, in install_translation
     lang = read_language_file()
   File 
"/pkg_comp/obj/pkgsrc/net/bittorrent/default/BitTorrent-4.4.0/BitTorrent/platform.py",
 line 335, in read_language_file
     lang_file_name = language_path()
   File 
"/pkg_comp/obj/pkgsrc/net/bittorrent/default/BitTorrent-4.4.0/BitTorrent/platform.py",
 line 318, in language_path
     lang_file_name = os.path.join(config_dir, '.bittorrent', 'data', 
'language')
   File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.5/posixpath.py", line 62, in join
     elif path == '' or path.endswith('/'):
 AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'endswith'
 usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
    or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
    or: setup.py --help-commands
    or: setup.py cmd --help
 
 error: no commands supplied
 
 Looking at the traceback, config_dir seems to be undefined, but this
 seems to be a red herring, related to the absence of a fake $HOME
 directory.
 
 When adding a symlink from /usr/pkg/bin/python -> python2.5, the line
 in setup.py
 
     os.system('sh ./makei18n.sh')
 
 magically starts to work (makei18n.sh produces plenty of output that
 shows it is running).
 
 But... the solution seems nearby: don't call the setup.py script, or
 patch it (or Python) so that it works (and add the locale files to
 PLIST). Maybe it is really a problem for the Python maintainers to
 fix...
 
 (Maybe as a workaround, if fixing Python takes too long, you can call
 the shell script from the pkgsrc Makefile and stub out the call in
 setup.py)
 
 Cheers,
 -Olaf.
 -- 
 ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert    -- You author it, and I'll reader it.
 \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl      -- Cetero censeo "authored" delendum esse.