[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Python Framework vs 'traditional' was Re: version numbers and dependencies

[Jack Jansen]

>>> did someone already tried to compile python 2.4 with 
>>> --enable-framework _and_ tried
>>> to destroot the install?
>>> It seems utterly broken - some stuff relies on already installed 
>>> files which are - of course -
>>> not yet in the installdir but inside the destroot...

Hmm, I missed the original of this message, somehow (or was it on 
darwinports only)?

This is a known problem, which is explained in Mac/OSX/Dist/README:
> Currently (November 2003) there is still a bug in the build procedure
> for $DESTROOT builds: building some of the applets will fail (in
> ``Mac/OSX/Makefile``) if you don't have the same version of Python 
> installed
> normally. So before doing the distribution you should build and install
> a framework Python in the normal way.

Unfortunately, the problem is rather difficult to fix. buildapplet (or 
py2app, or similar tools) will need to be told that we're in a destroot 
install situation, so that if it wants filenames it should use the 
non-destrooted version but if it actually needs the data that's in the 
files it should use the destrooted filename.

I can live with the current workaround for MacPython installers, if 
it's a problem for darwinports file a bugreport and a solution may be 
available sooner:-)
--
Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
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