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

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl
Sun Dec 19 01:29:37 CET 2004

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 If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman

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