At 10:41 AM 12/26/2005 -0800, Brian Zhou wrote:

Hi all,

I'm working on some system packages for http://nslu2-linux.orghttp://nslu2-linux.org optware with setuptools (svn dev so I can use the --single-version-externally-managed). Thanks to your hard work, so far it looks very promising.

However, since the platform I'm working on requires cross build, the python on debian host /usr/bin/python2.4 should not be used for scripts in the package. In particular we need all scripts in the package to have

#!/opt/bin/python

As the first line. With traditional distutils, we can append the following to setup.cfg

[build_scripts]
executable=/opt/bin/python

Can we add that back please?

I've checked a fix in now. I didn't know that option existed. Note that it needs to be specified in the config file or on the command line at the time install_scripts is run, since setuptools-generated scripts don't have a separate "build" step.

Also, easy_install does not respect this option; I haven't evaluated yet whether it should, and the change is more complex. So at the moment, I've only changed it for "install --single-version-externally-managed".