[Xapian-discuss] bindings - python module

[James Aylett]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:35:01AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:

> > > James: We don't want _xapian.a installing there, do we?  I think that's
> > > just a hangover from when I changed it to use libtool to build the
> > > shared libraries for the bindings...
> > 
> > Don't need _xapian.la either - xapian.py is the Python file that
> > import xapian will use; it itself imports _xapian as a shared object,
> > so you need _xapian.so; the others won't be used.
> 
> There's an install hook which is meant to remove _xapian.la, but it
> appears it's not working.  I'll investigate.

Hmm.

> > Incidentally, it might be nice to have an install hook to byte compile
> > xapian.py, merely because if you're installing as root but
> > subsequently running as another user it won't be able to save the .pyc
> > as the user.
> 
> OK - do you know the command to do that to save me digging for it?  And
> can I byte compile in the build directory, then install the .pyc as well
> as the .py?

PYTHONPATH=... python -c "import xapian"

should do the trick. You should be able to compile in the build
directory, I can't see why it wouldn't work. So PYTHONPATH=. which is
simpler than substituting the target dir (just).

J

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