Re: [xml] [PATCH] configure: Add --with-python-install-dir

[Jonas Eriksson <jonas eriksson enea com>]

Hi,

Top-posting a little 'ping' for this patch.

/Jonas

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 09:13:17 +0100 Jonas Eriksson wrote:
> Cross-compiling the python bindings is a bit difficult today, as the
> configure script will figure out the site packages dir
> (PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES) by either:
>
> - Generating the path to the site-package target directories using
>   libdir, and see if it exists. As it is not possible to point to the
>   full path of the sysroot, since that will yield the wrong install
>   path, and that the directory does not neccessarily exist on the host,
>   this approach will not work.
>
> - Fetch the site packages dir from the python interpreter as pointed to
>   by --with-python. Since this python interpreter will point to the
>   sysroot, the install dir generated will be inside the sysroot and thus
>   not work.
>
> This patch approaches the problem by adding the possibility of
> explicitly stating the install dir of the python packages, leaving it up
> to the cross-compilation environment to specify it. The patch does not
> affect the default case (non-cross compilation).
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonas Eriksson <jonas eriksson enea com>
> ---
>  configure.in | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
> index ecaa403..21ad1e7 100644
> --- a/configure.in
> +++ b/configure.in
> @@ -148,6 +148,9 @@ AC_ARG_WITH(push,
>  [  --with-push             add the PUSH parser interfaces (on)])
>  AC_ARG_WITH(python,
>  [  --with-python[[=DIR]]     build Python bindings if found])
> +AC_ARG_WITH(python_install_dir,
> +[  --with-python-install-dir=DIR
> +                          install Python bindings in DIR])
>  AC_ARG_WITH(reader,
>  [  --with-reader           add the xmlReader parsing interface (on)])
>  AC_ARG_WITH(readline,
> @@ -866,6 +869,10 @@ if test "$with_python" != "no" ; then
>           fi
>       fi
>      fi
> +    if test "$with_python_install_dir" != ""
> +    then
> +     PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES="$with_python_install_dir"
> +    fi
>      if test "$PYTHON_VERSION" != "" -a "$PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES" = ""
>      then
>       if test -d $libdir/python$PYTHON_VERSION/site-packages
> -- 
> 1.9.0