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[Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>]

Error copying file "_pcbnew.kiface" to "_pcbnew.so".

attached is dicks patch with my changes

On 14 February 2017 at 03:15, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2/12/2017 5:15 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
>>
>>> On 12 Feb 2017, at 22:18, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2/12/2017 5:37 AM, Simon Wells wrote:
>>>> i am stuck on the below as i do not understand whats trying to be
>>>> achieved doing this
>>>>
>>>> # For phase 1, copy _pcbnew.kiface to the python module. line onward
>>>> (line 733ish)
>>>>
>>>> until the end of the if, and its broken for me.
>>>
>>> It should just be a copy of the _pcbnew.kiface to the python library
>>> with the correct python extension for python to a folder where python
>>> can find it.  I'm not sure what the file extension is or where the
>>> python library install path is in osx.  I can check with Dick but I'm
>>> pretty sure by looking at the patch that is what it does.
>>
>> Did this (I guess it is using pcbnew stuff from machines python installation, not the python form inside pcbnew) ever work on macOS?
>>
>> That doesn’t really make sense on macOS with application bundles (IMHO).
>> The install step is just an intermediate step to create the initial bundle on the build machine.
>> If you install it to some python folder on the build machine, it won’t get anywhere on a users machine when installing (== copying) the bundle (the bundle is not more than a folder, so you don’t really “install” anything).
>>
>> One thing would probably be to create an own installer/bundle for this python stuff, which puts things in the right places on the destination machine. I don’t know if this is easily possible, because you could have more than one python installed and I don’t know about paths in libs.
>> Or, put it inside the bundle and let user handle it on his own (by symlinking, whatever…).
>>
>> Same fun will come up on Linux with AppImage stuff (and the other similar approaches)…
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bernhard
>>
>
> Please send me the build output for the build failure with this patch.
> Dick offered to try to resolve it but he needs the build log.

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