At 03:47 PM 7/27/2007 -0400, Stanley A. Klein wrote:
I'm trying to package an rpm for enthought kiva. The regular setup.py uses the numpy distutils because of some cpp functions that have to be compiled and are somehow tied to numpy.
Someone recently did a "build in place" program that uses the existing setup.py (that I renamed setup.original.py) and builds the .so files in the regular source directory hierarchy. I did that and then tried to run setuptools (python setup.py bdist_rpm) using a straightforward setup.py. It included all the python files but missed the *.so files. I can run kiva examples if I manually put the *.so files into the proper place in site-packages, so I know they are needed.
I tried including
packages = find_packages(), package_data = {'': ['*.so']},
in the setup.py, but it still missed the *.so files.
What am I doing wrong?
You don't want package_data. setup() needs to actually list the extensions. More precisely, the distutils "install_lib" command needs to install the extensions when requested to do so by bdist_rpm. The preceding applies to any distutils setup, not just setuptools.