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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2016-01-10 22:54 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On 1/10/2016 11:13 AM, Clemens Koller wrote:
>> Hello, Strontium!
>>
>> On 2016-01-09 06:52, Strontium wrote:
>>> I am building with this:
>>> $ cmake ../kicad-source-mirror -DKICAD_SKIP_BOOST=ON
>>> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/kicad-build
>>> -DDEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH=/opt/kicad-build -DKICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
>>> -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
>>> $ make all
>>> $ make install
>>>
>>> That installs pcbnew.py in :
>>> /opt/kicad-build/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pcbnew.py
>>>
>>> which is NOT a system directory.
>>
>> I am currently back to:
>> cmake         -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/SW \
>>       -DDEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH=~/SW \
>>       -DKICAD_SKIP_BOOST=ON \
>>       -DKICAD_SCRIPTING=ON \
>>       -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON \
>>       -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON \
>>       ../../
>>
>> And pcbnew.py is installed in my case to ~/SW/lib/python2.7/site-packages
>> which is ok. IMHO a better destination could be:
>> ~/SW/lib/python2.7/site-packages/kicad
>>
>> But the system's python doesn't look for packages in that directory, of course,
>> and it complains with:
>>
>> $ ./pcbnew
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
>> ImportError: No module named pcbnew
>>
>> It gets more interesting when I add the path to pcbnew.py:
>>
>> $ PYTHONPATH=~/SW/lib/python2.7/site-packages ./pcbnew
>
> I believe you wanted to do:
>
> $ export PYTHONPATH=~/SW/lib/python2.7/site-packages ./pcbnew

You don't need the export when you write the variable before the
command like this. But I am unsure if the tilde behaves as you expect
here. One could try to use ${HOME} or actually write /home/username
instead of the tilde.

>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
>>   File "/home/admin/SW/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pcbnew.py", line 5055, in <module>
>>     class BOARD(BOARD_ITEM):
>>   File "/home/admin/SW/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pcbnew.py", line 5710, in BOARD
>>     def GetViaByPosition(self, aPosition, aLayer=UNDEFINED_LAYER):
>> NameError: name 'UNDEFINED_LAYER' is not defined
>>
>> I am not into the python internals, but it seems something smells down that road.
>> We can just declare installing kicad with python support as non-root currently
>> as "unsupported". I am fine with that for now.
>
> At least you resolved you module load issue so that's a step in the
> right direction.  I don't know how thoroughly the Python module code has
> been tested so you may find some issues here and there.
>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Clemens
>>
>>>
>>> Steven
>>>
>>> On 09/01/16 00:25, Clemens Koller wrote:
>>>> Hello, Nick!
>>>>
>>>> On 2016-01-08 17:03, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>>>>> Distro packagers are supposed to enable scripting, and when they
>>>>> generate a package it is installed in the proper location for python.
>>>>> AFIK
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, I did write to keenerd that the scripting is supposed to be
>>>>> enabled. But it does not seem he is the last packager at the moment.
>>>> There were some commits from him for kicad-4.0.1.
>>>> So he should be in charge. ;-)
>>>>
>>>> On Arch, I believe the packages are build using makepkg using
>>>> fakeroot, so he/we won't run into the issues.
>>>>
>>>> Clemens
>>>>
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