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[10:59:32] * zooko checks Cheese Shop for setuptools v0.6c6...
[11:22:34] <zooko> By the way, we have what seems sort of like a bug in compiling .pyc files.
[11:22:36] <zooko> http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/35
[11:22:57] <zooko> When we invoke setuptools with --root=$R --prefix="."
[11:23:14] <zooko> then the resulting .pyc files have "/./" as the prefix of their path-to-source-file string.
[11:23:33] <zooko> And if we do it with --prefix="", then they start with "/".
[11:24:16] <zooko> I'm not 100% sure what they *ought* to have for a path when we use --root=$R --prefix=".", but I'd like to figure out something that works better than "/./", which after all means that backtraces and the like can't find the source files.
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[14:14:50] <zooko> Oh, pje, I wrote some lines intended for you just now, not realizing that you weren't on.
[14:14:52] <zooko> Shall I repaste them?
[14:15:57] <pje> Hm.
[14:16:19] * pje looks at the log
[14:17:08] <pje> I guess you could skip --root and go back to using --single-version-externally-managed and --record
[14:17:22] <pje> Unfortunately, the problem you're having is part of the distutils
[14:17:35] <pje> i.e., those same options cause the same issue even if setuptools isn't involved
[14:18:20] <pje> Although I'm not sure what the problem with /. is
[14:18:40] <pje> I mean, you can't have relative paths in a .pyc file anyway, can you?
[14:18:48] <pje> I think they have to be absolute.
[15:31:19] <zooko> Hm.
[15:32:02] <zooko> I see.  So since I'm using --root, then it really isn't appropriate for the .pyc's to contain absolute paths rooted in the real root.
[15:32:10] * zooko reads about --record.
[15:34:21] <zooko> http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools doesn't seem to define what "--record" is.
[15:34:44] <zooko> Nor does setup.py --help.
[15:35:56] <zooko> By grepping the source tree of setuptools, I found it.  :-)
[15:36:41] <zooko> So I see that once again I've forgotten about the existence of http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall since I don't understand the difference between EasyInstall and setuptools or why they exist separately from one another...
[15:37:16] <zooko> Okay, so in our case we don't actually want the results of --record, but I can pass it --record=/dev/null or some such just to satisfy it.  ;-)
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