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Installing .py modules with Setup.in and Makefile.pre.in

Ben Gertzfield che at debian.org
Mon Jan 10 12:51:24 EST 2000 
Hey, folks. I'm trying to create a module that will install both
a shared library Python module built from C sources *and* a few
pure-Python modules at once.

The documentation doesn't seem to say how, and I can't find any
examples of what to put into Setup.in to have it install both C-built
modules *and* pure-Python modules. Here's what I've got now, for just
the C modules:

# Setup.in file for the CDDB Python module
# Please uncomment the lines that pertain to your OS!

*shared*

# For Win32, you'll just need to copy the files 'win32/mci.dll' and
# 'win32/cdrom.py' to your Python module path by hand, or re-build
# the mci.dll file using the mci.dsp project file.

# Linux module
cdrom linux/cdrommodule.c -DLINUX

# Solaris module
# cdrom linux/cdrommodule.c -DSOLARIS

*snip*

I've tried just putting the names of my python modules in on separate
lines, but then the Makefile tries to build them as .so shared
libraries containing no object files. :)

Is there any way to do this? Do I have to just tell folks to copy the
resultant .so library and all the .py files to their site-python
directory?

For what it's worth, my module's at:

http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/~ben/python/cddb.html

I'm also interested in knowing if the "guess-and-uncomment" method I'm
using above in the Setup.in is the best way to detect different
operating systems. The code that I'm running really needs to know what
OS it's on, but I'm not sure how best to detect that, so I just went
with the good old "make the user uncomment their own darned lines"
method. :)

And finally, what to do about the win32 users? I've provided a
'makefile' of sorts (a Microsoft Developer Studio project file) but I
doubt this will play well with the Makefile.pre.in style of
building. For now, I'm just figuring I'll include both the binary and
source of the win32 version of the module, and let the users copy
them by hand. (yuck!)

Thanks,

Ben

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