#5591 LOW Never A: Python DBus install fails under sugar-jhbuild (Gentoo AMD64)

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#5591: Python DBus install fails under sugar-jhbuild (Gentoo AMD64)
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 Reporter:  mcfletch  |       Owner:  jg                
     Type:  defect    |      Status:  new               
 Priority:  low       |   Milestone:  Never Assigned    
Component:  distro    |     Version:  Git as of bug date
 Keywords:            |    Verified:  0                 
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 The Python DBus wrapper fails under Gentoo AMD64 in a trivial way.
 Basically the "install.sh" script is calling Python's compile script to
 compile the newly installed modules.  It is doing this while pwd is in a
 directory which includes a types.py module.  If you happen to have '.' or
 '' in your pythonpath, and your site.py happens to include *anything* that
 imports the standard Python types module (including 'os') the install will
 fail.

 To fix the problem:

 * alter the install.sh script to not call compile (not ideal, as it will
 slow down the "real" install (as distinct from sugar-jhbuild) slightly as
 each process' load of the module will re-parse the source)

 * alter the install.sh script to work from a directory *other* than the
 source directory (i.e. ../)

 Work arounds:

 * forcibly remove '' and '.' from the PYTHONPATH before running the
 installation (i.e. run as PYTHONPATH="" ./sugar-jhbuild build )

 * tell sugar-jhbuild to skip the install step and continue to finished
 (works because under sugar-jhbuild the compilation is extraneous (we're
 installing as the current user))

 Afraid I don't know enough about makefiles to know how to accomplish the
 fixes, but hopefully the dbus folks will know how.

 Package with the bug is dbus-python-0.82.3

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