On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 09:57:23AM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> Debian contains a patch that basically replaces this file by just doing
> omniidl -b ethereal_be $1
> without any -p path argument.
>
> The reason for that can be found at
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=158909
Yes, long time ago I reported that bug...
> If I copy the files /usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/\
> ethereal_{be,gen}.py into the current directory, everything
> works fine. I believe, that idl2eth should find the .py
> files without the user having to set PYTHONPATH or copy
> files.
And that is really the case :-)
> Maybe we should try to catch that case by trying to run
> omniidl -b ethereal_be $1
On Debian, the PYTHONPATH is empty by default. All Python
programs are installed in a way, that the user is not forced to
set the PYTHONPATH, of course. For more information, see:
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/
On systems, where the ethereal_{be,gen}.py files are not on a
Python standard directory (i.e. .../python*/site-packages/),
this will not work.
Btw. please take a look at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=314833
It advises to call
omniidl -b ethereal_be $*
instead of
omniidl -b ethereal_be $1
so that arguments such -I. are passed to the omniidl backend.
The other stuff is Debian specific.
Cheers,
--
W. Borgert <debacle@xxxxxxxxxx>, http://people.debian.org/~debacle/
