I’ll try to be more specific. This python source does not seem to set the build 
env. and I don’t see how the python port group will do that. I think the build 
command needs to set be to "./qreduce.py” and the library path set in 
“qrmodel.py”. Do I understand this correctly?

Mark Brethen
mark.bret...@gmail.com



> On Oct 27, 2018, at 2:57 PM, Mark Brethen <mark.bret...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> According to the readme for “qreduce” the procedure to build the Qt-based GUI 
> for Reduce is:
> 
> 1. Get a matching PySide binary package following the instructions
>   here: http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/PySideDownloads/
> 
> 2. Go to ../libreduce, and say "make". This will create there a new
>   directory <dir> based on your exact machine and OS type.
> 
> 3. Return here, and say "ln -s ../libreduce/<dir>/RedPy.so".
> 
> 4. Say "./qreduce.py".
> 
> 
> I have installed pyside2 for step 1 made necessary patches to the python 
> source. Steps 2 and 3 are not required, since I have created a libreduce port 
> that installs the RedPy library in ../../lib. A file “qrmodel.py” imports 
> RedPy using the following lines
> 
> here = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
> p = Popen("%s/../../config.guess" % here, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
> config_guess, err = p.communicate()
> p = Popen(["%s/../../scripts/findhost.sh" % here, config_guess], stdout=PIPE, 
> stderr=PIPE)
> arch, err = p.communicate()
> sys.path.append("%s/../libreduce/%s" % (here, arch.rstrip()))
> 
> from RedPy import procNew, procDelete, ansNew, ansDelete
> 
> I need to comment out those lines that locate RedPy using sys.path.append and 
> supply the correct path to RedPy.so. I can patch this directly and supply the 
> actual path. If I add Python group and set ‘python.add_archflags’ how should 
> the source import this during build.
> 
> 
> Mark Brethen
> mark.bret...@gmail.com
> 
> 
> 

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