[gobolinux-users] trouble with python recipe

[Michael Homer]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Hi There <goboster at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to create a recipe for a python program
>  called elefant. It's giving me an error about a
>  missing directory (at the end of this message), I
>  tried adding python_options=("--install-dir $target")
>  but then setup.py complained that was an invalid
>  option.
<snip>
>     [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
>  '/Programs/Elefant/0.1.0/lib/python2.5/site-packages/test-easy-install-31240.pth'
>
>  The installation directory you specified (via
>  --install-dir, --prefix, or
>  the distutils default setting) was:
>
>
>  /Programs/Elefant/0.1.0/lib/python2.5/site-packages/
>
>  This directory does not currently exist.  Please
>  create it
^^^^^^^ That looks to be the simplest way to fix it - just create that
directory in pre_install() and it should work (or one of the earlier
hooks; I'm not sure when you're getting that error). pre_install() {
mkdir -p $target/lib/python2.5/site-packages; } should do it. A patch
to have their install script do that itself (which I think it should)
would be another way, and you could send that upstream so it wouldn't
be necessary to work around the problem in the future.
-Michael