Andrew Kuchling wrote:
line 3, in ? ImportError: cannot import name XPathParserBase
What exactly is the bug? Do you not expect that ImportError to be raised? Or is it just that the path names shown in tracebacks are wrong?
The ImportError is being raised _because_ of the wrong pathnames. If I perform the exact same procedure on the exact same machine with a 4Suite installed from the distutils sdist, I get no such ImportError.
Further investigation turns up the culprit: The generated pyc files from the RPM have the "/var/tmp/..." hard-coded in to their imports.
Presumably bdist_rpm shouldn't contain .pyc files, and should instead use a postinstall script to compile the .py files.
Incorrect. Here is the .spec that bdist_rpm generates: %define name 4Suite %define version 0.9.0 %define release 1 Summary: 4Suite Description Name: %{name} Version: %{version} Release: %{release} Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz Copyright: UNKNOWN Group: Development/Libraries BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-buildroot Prefix: %{_prefix} Vendor: Fourthought, Inc. <support@4suite.org> Url: http://www.4suite.org %description 4Suite is a collection of Python tools for XML processing and object-databases. 4Suite is an integrated packaging of 4DOM, 4XPath, 4XSLT, 4RDF, and 4ODS. %prep %setup %build env CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" python setup.py build %install python setup.py install --root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT --record=INSTALLED_FILES %clean rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT %files -f INSTALLED_FILES %defattr(-,root,root) As you can see, there is no post-installation script registration. Note that I can probably solve this probblem by building the RPM by hand without the BuildRoot line or the "--root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" argument in the "python setup.py...". Of course I'll need a smarter %clean section as well. If so, I'll post a working .spec file for additional data. In case it helps anyone to look at the package, there is a 4Suite sdist available at ftp://ftp.fourthought.com/pub/4Suite/4Suite-0.9.0rc1.tar.gz Note the prerequisite of ftp://ftp.fourthought.com/pub/4Suite/BisonGen-0.5.0rc1.tar.gz -- Uche Ogbuji Principal Consultant uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com +1 303 583 9900 x 101 Fourthought, Inc. http://Fourthought.com 4735 East Walnut St, Ste. C, Boulder, CO 80301-2537, USA Software-engineering, knowledge-management, XML, CORBA, Linux, Python