[Distutils] Problem with build_rpm

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Juergen Hermann wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I tried build_rpm today and failed, because of this:
> 
> + cd /home/jhe/src/python/extensions/cin/build/bdist.linux-i686/rpm/BUILD
> + cd cin-1.3
> + env 'CFLAGS=-O2 -m486 -fno-strength-reduce' python setup.py build
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "setup.py", line 14, in ?
>     from distutils.core import setup, Extension
> ImportError: No module named distutils.core
> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.49462 (%build)
> error: command 'rpm' failed with exit status 1
> 
> The problem here is that "python" is Python 1.5, and setup.py has a "#!
> /usr/bin/env python2.1" bangpath, i.e. the call in the "+ env" line should
> use "sys.executable", not a fixed "python" string.
>

This helps:

# Python version to use
PYTHONVERSION = 2.0
PYTHON = python$(PYTHONVERSION)

$(PYTHON) setup.py bdist_rpm --python $(PYTHON)

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