Re: [tuxdroid-user] Portable makefiles and python path

[Kiffin G. <kif...@pl...>]

David Bourgeois wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:54:29 +0200, Kiffin Gish 
> <kif...@pl...>  wrote:
>
>> Hi folks!
>>
>> I would like to see a more generic and portable use of the makefiles,
>> e.g. C_INCLUDE_DIRS, LIB_DIRS, LIBS and the use of PYTHONPATH so that
>> applications like gtdi.py can fine the api without using hardcoded
>> values, e.g. sys.path.append('/opt/tuxdroid/api/python'). Evertime I
>> need to rebuild the trunk I have to redit the lot which is a pain after
>> a while. Thanks alot in advance.
>>
>> See my thread here:
>> http://www.tuxisalive.com/tux-droid-forum/forumtopic1/958671085
>>
>
> Hi Kiffin,
>
> There are plans to move to autoconf and that should solve your 
> problems I  think. Now I don't know autoconf myself so either it'll 
> take the time for  me to learn it or someone else will get it done 
> before.
> In the mean time, I'll apply your changes to the Makefile, they sound 
> good  to me.
>
> For the usb_detach_kernel_driver_np, as there's no kernel driver for 
> tux,  I guess we simply don't need it.
>
> The python api should be packaged with distutils as that's the best 
> way to  do it but I have no idea when we will get that done either. As 
> of the use  of PYTHONPATH, I don't see exactly how that could be done 
> properly. You  can probably set it directly in your .bashrc file (or 
> equivalent in BSD).


The way I do it for now is to have a simple script in each directory 
called setpythonpath which points to the correct python-api dirctory. 
Not really elegant, but it works.

>
> Anyway thanks for the information.
> david
>
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