Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how bdist_rpm works for anyone. I've tried 0.9.2, the 9/12 and 9/16 snapshots but I have a problem with the generated pycs.
First the symptom. I build 4Suite using distutils. The sdist, bdist and bdist_win packages work just fine, but when I move the generated RPM to another machine and try to use 4Suite:
[uogbuji@dynip-23 uogbuji]$ python Python 1.5.2 (#1, Jul 12 2000, 10:39:14) [GCC 2.96 20000702 (experimental)] on linux-i386 Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
import sys sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python1.5/', '/usr/lib/python1.5/plat-linux-i386', '/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages']
import xml.xslt
Traceback (innermost last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "/var/tmp/4Suite-buildroot/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xml/xslt/__init__.py", line 3, in ? File "/var/tmp/4Suite-buildroot/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xml/xpath/__init__.py", line 3, in ? ImportError: cannot import name XPathParserBase
The problem is the phantom "/var/tmp/4Suite-buildroot/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages"...
[uogbuji@dynip-23 uogbuji]$ ls /var/tmp [uogbuji@dynip-23 uogbuji]$
Further investigation turns up the culprit: The generated pyc files from the RPM have the "/var/tmp/..." hard-coded in to their imports.
So am I doing something wrong, or is distutils broken for RPM build?
I'm not on the distutils list so ccs to me would be appreciated. Otherwise I can check the archives.
Thanks.