Re: Proton Python install shenanigans

["Darryl L. Pierce" <dp...@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 04:31:20PM +0000, Fraser Adams wrote:
> I've been tearing my hair out a bit trying to figure why I can't see the
> relevant Python modules.
> 
> I build Proton on a clean Linux Mint 17 system (which is based on Ubuntu
> 14.04)
> 
> make all builds successfully and sudo make install installs the following:
> 
> fadams@zappa /usr/local/lib/proton/bindings/python $ ls -al
> total 2120
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Nov 30 12:28 .
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root    4096 Nov 30 12:20 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   89278 Nov 30 11:29 cproton.py
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  103293 Nov 30 12:28 cproton.pyc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  103293 Nov 30 12:28 cproton.pyo
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1445471 Nov 30 12:20 _cproton.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  109162 Nov 30 11:20 __init__.py
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  151464 Nov 30 12:28 __init__.pyc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  151257 Nov 30 12:28 __init__.pyo
> 
> 
> I set PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/proton/bindings/python
> 
> but when I try
> ./msgr-recv.py
> 
> I get
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./msgr-recv.py", line 23, in <module>
>     from proton import *
> ImportError: No module named proton
> 
> 
> Now I'm thinking that make install hasn't pulled all of the necessary files
> into /usr/local/lib/proton/bindings/python the reason I'm thinking that is
> when I tried running
> source config.sh
> 
> I noticed that the PYTHONPATH it created looked like
> 
> PYTHONPATH=/home/fadams/qpid/git/qpid-proton/tests/python:/home/fadams/qpid/git/qpid-proton/proton-c/bindings/python:/home/fadams/qpid/git/qpid-proton/build/proton-c/bindings/python
> 
> and this *does* appear to work, the significant bit seems to be the
> /home/fadams/qpid/git/qpid-proton/proton-c/bindings/python bit, because when
> I tried:
> 
> PYTHONPATH=/home/fadams/qpid/git/qpid-proton/proton-c/bindings/python:/usr/local/lib/proton/bindings/python
> 
> that worked too.
> 
> So I'm thinking that the directory proton and its contents in
> qpid-proton/proton-c/bindings/python need to be copied to
> 
> /usr/local/lib/proton/bindings/python
> 
> as part of the make install process too.
> 
> Does that seem about right?

The code was migrated to a directory, so should be installing to:

  /path/to/python/site-libs/proton

?

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