New submission from Michal Cyprian: 1. python3 setup.py build --executable="/usr/bin/binary" 2. python3 setup.py install -O1 --skip-build
These two commands are typically used to build and install Python packages from sources. Let's assume there is a setup.py script of package foo, containing a script foo. The --executable option of build command (1) should set the shebang of the script foo to #!/usr/bin/binary. The problem is that this option doesn't work for scripts listed in setup.py as entry_points, which is the most common way of handling scripts these days. The idea of the original design was probably to pass the value of --executable to the build_scripts command and set shebang there. However, this command is not executed if the package contains only entry_points. The scripts listed as entry_points are processed during execution of the install command (2) (specifically, in the easy_install command), which is completely isolated from the build command (1) and doesn't have access to the value specified in the --executable option. The only reasonable solution that came to my mind was to add the --executable option to the install command as well, pass it to the easy_install command and make the ScriptWriter class use this value. I prepared a patch that fixes this issue in setuptools [1]. To make it work, a small patch [2] will have to be applied to distutils as well. Would this or something similar be acceptable for distutils? I've already sent this proposal to pypa-dev mailing list, they replied that patch will be useful. The patch [2] needs to go to distutils first, to make patch for setuptools work. [1] https://github.com/mcyprian/python-setuptools/blob/system-python/add-executable-option.patch [2] https://github.com/mcyprian/python-setuptools/blob/system-python/add-executable-option.patch ---------- components: Distutils messages: 286612 nosy: Michal Cyprian, dstufft, eric.araujo priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Option --executable for entry_points type: behavior versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29411> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
