Mailman 3 June 2003 - Distutils-SIG

install packages & modules simultaneously?
by David Goodger 22 Jun '03

22 Jun '03

Docutils relies on a few 3rd-party modules, and includes them as a convenience. They are only to be installed if they're not already present in a Python installation, so I have code in setup.py check for them. Distutils doesn't seem to be able to handle packages and individual modules simultaneously. Distutils complains if I specify both "packages" and "py_modules" in a single call. I got the script to work by calling distutils.core.setup twice: first for the third-party modules, then for the "docutils" packages (http://docutils.sf.net/setup.py). Installation isn't so bad, but doing "python setup.py sdist" creates 2 tarballs and feels very kludgey. Does anyone know of a better way? -- David Goodger http://starship.python.net/~goodger Programmer/sysadmin for hire: http://starship.python.net/~goodger/cv

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Changing Compiler Arguments
by Enrico Ng 05 Jun '03

05 Jun '03

Is there a way to change the compiler arguments that are added by distutils. NDEBUG is causing problems. The distutils documentation suggests undef_macros, but this does not do anything to help. -- Enrico Ng <enrico(a)fnal.gov>

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Files not included
by Enrico Ng 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

I am trying a simple example: #/usr/bin/env python from distutils.core import setup, Extension from distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext setup(name="orbit", version="1.0", ext_package="orbit", ext_modules=[Extension("orbit", sources = ["Parallel.cc"])]) when I do "python setup.py sdist", the resulting tarfile only includes PKGINFO and setup.py, it does not include Parallel.cc. I tried this on a SunOS 5.7 using Python 2.2.2 (GCC 3.2.3) and it works fine. When I try it on a Linux 2.4.9 using Python 2.2.2 (GCC 3.2.3) it does not work. I do not know if this is related to the OS. I am thinking it may have something to do with different configure options, but I do not know. Any ideas? -- Enrico Ng <enrico(a)fnal.gov>

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