buildbot and incompatible module versioning

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Maciej,

Am 06.11.2013 um 12:14 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński <maciej at opencsw.org>:
> 2013/11/6 Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>:
>> Well, it does not work when trying to install twisted because there is a definition
>> like this missing:
>>  EXTRA_CPPFLAGS += -D_XPG4_2
> 
> Does this work?
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9849257/how-to-set-cflags-and-ldflags-to-compile-pycrypto

Indeed, this works:

> cd
> mkdir -p tmp/buildbot
> cd tmp/buildbot
> virtualenv --no-site-packages sandbox
> source sandbox/bin/activate
> easy_install sqlalchemy==0.7.10
> CPPFLAGS=-D_XPG4_2 easy_install buildbot
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>>> If you insist on having a package, you could create an alternate
>>> sqlalchemy package that would not install into /opt/csw/lib/pythonX.Y
>>> but some custom place, specifically for buildbot. Then you could use
>>> the PYTHONPATH env variable to access this library.
>>> 
>>> You could combine the two like so:
>>> 
>>> export VIRTUALENV_EXTRA_SEARCH_DIR="/path/to/dists /path/to/other/dists"
>>> 
>>> http://www.virtualenv.org/en/latest/#environment-variables-and-configuration-files
>> 
>> The it would be best to add the specific version of sqlalchemy to the buildbot
>> package and make wrappers around the executables?
> 
> Yes, it's best if buildbot comes with a private copy of sqlalchemy.


Ok, will try.


Best regards

  -- Dago

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