[Distutils] [Enthought-dev] Building Fedora RPMs

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:37 AM 10/23/2007 -0400, Stanley A. Klein wrote:
>On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 18:15 -0500, Dave Peterson wrote:
> > Stanley A. Klein wrote:
>
> > > Other failures included:
> > >
> > > endo - unpackaged pyc and pyo files (looks like a setup.py issue)
> > >
> >
> > I get rpms built for this just fine.  Are you sure you have no local
>changes?
> >
>
>The problem with this one may be a setuptools issue.
>
>The failure in doing the bdist_rpm is on a file endo.py, which is
>identified to setuptools in the setup.py as a script.  The file is
>originally in enthought/endo/scripts.  The pyc and pyo files get built
>there properly because of the [install] optimize=1 option in setup.cfg.
>However, the INSTALLED_FILES also lists a /usr/bin/endo.py without the pyc
>and pyo files.  The Fedora rpm system causes those optimization files to
>be built unbeknownst to setuptools, which then causes the installed but
>unpackaged files error.
>
>I tried declaring the pyc and pyo files in the script statement, but at
>that point they don't exist and I got an error to that effect.
>
>There is probably a workaround, like commenting out the scripts
>statement in the setup.py and providing rpm a post-install script to copy
>endo.* into /usr/bin.  However, it would create separate setup.py files
>for rpm and non-rpm packaging.

Better still, take off the '.py' on the 'endo' script, and/or use 
setuptools' script generation support.