Bug 379987 – distutils and game eclasses don't play together

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Nikos Chantziaras 2011-08-20 17:10:40 UTC]

I have a Python application that installs a Python script to /usr/bin by default. However, the application is game-related, so it should go to /usr/games/bin instead.  So my inherit line in the ebuild looks like this:

  inherit distutils games

But during the installation phase, the script still ends up in /usr/bin. The ebuild in question is rather short and does not define any functions (eutils code for  has been removed since it's not relevant):

  EAPI="3"
  PYTHON_DEPEND="2:2.7"

  inherit distutils games

  DESCRIPTION="Interactive Fiction library manager"
  HOMEPAGE="http://grotesque.sourceforge.net"
  SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/grotesque/${P}-gtk2.tar.gz"

  LICENSE="GPL-3"
  SLOT="0"
  KEYWORDS="amd64 x86"
  IUSE=""

  DEPEND="dev-python/pygtk"
  RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"

Adding this src_install() function doesn't help either:

  src_install() {
	distutils_src_install
	# This also won't work:
	# gameswrapper distutils_src_install
	prepgamesdirs
  }

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Nikos Chantziaras 2011-08-20 17:11:36 UTC]

Created attachment 284045 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 2 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2011-08-22 06:57:02 UTC]

So.... where's the error?  Yes, you're using two eclasses and you might have to write more code in the ebuild.  News at 11?

[Comment 3 Nikos Chantziaras 2011-08-22 16:36:13 UTC]

I thought you inherit this eclass and it takes care of installation paths.  At least that's what happens with anything else that's not using distutils.

News at 12.

[Comment 4 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2011-08-22 19:32:48 UTC]

Well you can try to use the games variables with the distutils functions.  I'm still not seeing "the bug" here.  You have to say what you mean in the ebuild or things won't work like you're expecting.  I'm closing this INVALID because I'm not seeing evidence of a bug in the eclasses.

[Comment 5 Nikos Chantziaras 2011-08-22 19:48:28 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Well you can try to use the games variables with the distutils functions.  I'm
> still not seeing "the bug" here.  You have to say what you mean in the ebuild
> or things won't work like you're expecting.  I'm closing this INVALID because
> I'm not seeing evidence of a bug in the eclasses.

Well, what I mean is that when I use games.eclass with something else (like automake based), and do:

  emake DESTDIR="${D}" install

everything ends up in the right place.  But how does one do the same with distutils_src_install?

[Comment 6 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2011-08-22 20:11:35 UTC]

You might be able to do things like games-board/pychess or check other games that use the distutils eclass.