[Mailman-Developers] japanesecodes-1.4.5 install prob

[Barry A. Warsaw]

[I'm Cc'ing the distutils wizard and the JapaneseCodecs author, since
I believe this is a bug in one of those two systems -BAW]

>>>>> "RJ" == Ron Jarrell <jarrell@vt.edu> writes:

    RJ> When I try to install mailman now I'm getting:

    RJ> for p in email-2.0.1 JapaneseCodecs-1.4.5 KoreanCodecs-1.0.0;
    RJ> \ do \
    RJ> gunzip -c $p.tar.gz | tar xf -; \ (cd $p ;
    RJ> PYTHONPATH=/home/mailman/pythonlib /usr/local/bin/python setup.py
    RJ> --quiet install --install-lib /home/mailman/pythonlib); \
    RJ> done error:
    RJ> /usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/japanese.pth:
    RJ> Permission denied *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command
    RJ> failed for target `install-packages' Current working directory
    RJ> /usr/local/src/mailman-dev/mailman/misc *** Error code 1 make:
    RJ> Fatal error: Command failed for target `doinstall'

    RJ> Which of course, is correct, since as a non root users I can't
    RJ> write to site-packages...  But which is shouldn't be trying to
    RJ> write *to*..

The problem I believe is in either distutils, or the way the Japanese
codec package setup.py file is written.

"python setup.py --help install" says:

Options for 'Install' command:
[...]
  --install-base      base installation directory (instead of --prefix or --
                      home)
  --install-platbase  base installation directory for platform-specific files
                      (instead of --exec-prefix or --home)
  --root              install everything relative to this alternate root
                      directory
  --install-purelib   installation directory for pure Python module
                      distributions
  --install-platlib   installation directory for non-pure module distributions
  --install-lib       installation directory for all module distributions
                      (overrides --install-purelib and --install-platlib)
  --install-headers   installation directory for C/C++ headers
  --install-scripts   installation directory for Python scripts
  --install-data      installation directory for data files

So I've been using --install-lib to put the JapaneseCodecs package
(as well as the email and KoreanCodecs packages) in $(PYTHONLIBDIR),
which by default is /usr/local/mailman/pythonlib.

The problem comes because the japanese.pth file doesn't honor
--install-lib.  Trial and error shows that if I include
--install-purelib $(PYTHONLIBDIR) then japanese.pth goes in the right
place, e.g. /usr/local/mailman/pythonlib.  So as a workaround, I've
made this change.

>From the JapaneseCodecs setup.py file:

-------------------- snip snip --------------------
class Install(install):
    def finalize_options (self):
        install.finalize_options(self)
        self.distribution.data_files = [
            (self.install_purelib, ["japanese.pth"])]
-------------------- snip snip --------------------

and according to the help text above, shouldn't self.install_purelib
be coming from my --install-lib option?  Is this a bug in distutils?
Or does the setup.py file need to be fixed?

Note: Python 2.2.1 being used.
-Barry