[Trilinos-Users] error with 'make install' for Teuchos with PyTrilinos

[John Pye]

Bill Spotz wrote:
> Your error is because the PyTrilinos installer is trying to write to
> /usr and you do not have permission. The reason it is trying to write
> to /usr is because PyTrilinos has a hybrid build system: make turns
> over control to a python script that uses the distutils module. You
> are specifying your install directory in a way I do not anticipate, so
> it doesn't get passed to the script.

I understand that. My aim here is the creation of a binary RPM for
Trilinos. This process is the same as is required for packaging Debian
packages as well. What is done is that './configure' is called with the
desired *final* locations of the files. This ensures that when 'make' is
run, any file locations that are hard-coded in the built files are set
correctly. Then, when 'make install' is run, all the file locations are
changed to *temporary* file locations, so that all the files end up in a
special place (/var/tmp/trilinos-7.0.8 for example) so that RPM or
Debian can come along afterwards and gather them up and put them into
the package.

Two approaches to the 'make install' thing are (1) to set prefix,
exec_prefic, bindir, etc explicitly. (there are standard macros provided
in RPM for doing that) or (2) to set just one parameter like so: 'make
install DESTDIR=/var/tmp/trilinos-7.0.8' (this path would then be
preprended to all destination paths in calls to 'install' and 'mkdir'
etc; and it would default to an empty string).

It looks to me as though the simplest approach here might be the
'DESTDIR' approach, in which case it seems that your problem with
distutils would be solved by calling it via 'python setup.py install
--root=$DESTDIR' to pass the installation root location through to
distutils.

Hope that clarifies things a little.

Cheers
JP

>
> If you configure with --prefix=..., the PyTrilinos build system should
> be able to figure out where to install its modules. I'm a little
> surprised that it is trying to install in /usr and not /usr/local. Are
> you currently setting --prefix?
>
> On Jul 25, 2007, at 6:07 AM, John Pye wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I think I have a problem with the 'make install' step with PyTrilinos in
>> the current 7.0.8 release. My 'make install' command (part of building
>> an RPM package) is:
>>
>> |make prefix=/var/tmp/trilinos-7.0.8/usr
>> exec_prefix=/var/tmp/trilinos-7.0.8/usr
>> bindir=/var/tmp/trilinos-7.0.8/usr/bin
>> sbindir=/var/tmp/trilinos-7.0.8/usr/sbin
>> sysconfdir=/var/tmp/trilinos-7.0.8/etc
>> datadir=/var/tmp/trilinos-7.0.8/usr/share
>> includedir=/var/tmp/trilinos-7.0.8/usr/include
>> libdir=/var/tmp/trilinos-7.0.8/usr/lib
>> libexecdir=/var/tmp/trilinos-7.0.8/usr/libexec
>> localstatedir=/var/tmp/trilinos-7.0.8/var
>> sharedstatedir=/var/tmp/trilinos-7.0.8/usr/com
>> mandir=/var/tmp/trilinos-7.0.8/usr/share/man
>> infodir=/var/tmp/trilinos-7.0.8/usr/share/info install|
>>
>> This gets a little bit of the way in, with for example
>>
>> | /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./Teuchos_XMLParameterListReader.hpp
>> /var/tmp/trilinos-7.0.8/usr/include/Teuchos_XMLParameterListReader.hpp
>> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./Teuchos_XMLParameterListWriter.hpp
>> /var/tmp/trilinos-7.0.8/usr/include/Teuchos_XMLParameterListWriter.hpp
>> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./Teuchos_XMLParser.hpp
>> /var/tmp/trilinos-7.0.8/usr/include/Teuchos_XMLParser.hpp
>> make[4]: Leaving directory
>> `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/trilinos-7.0.8/packages/teuchos/src'|
>>
>> but then it fails. It seems that the makefile in
>> packages/teuchos/python/src is ignoring the above 'make install' flags,
>> and just going ahead and instlaling the stuff in /usr. See below for the
>> error.
>>
>> Chees
>> JP
>>
>> |make[4]: Leaving directory
>> `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/trilinos-7.0.8/packages/teuchos/example'
>> make[3]: Leaving directory
>> `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/trilinos-7.0.8/packages/teuchos/example'
>> Making install in python
>> make[3]: Entering directory
>> `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/trilinos-7.0.8/packages/teuchos/python'
>> Making install in src
>> make[4]: Entering directory
>> `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/trilinos-7.0.8/packages/teuchos/python/src'
>> /usr/bin/python ./setup.py install --prefix=/usr
>> running install
>> running build
>> running build_py
>> running build_ext
>> running install_lib
>> creating /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyTrilinos
>> error: could not create '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyTrilinos':
>> Permission denied
>> make[4]: *** [install] Error 1
>> make[4]: Leaving directory
>> `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/trilinos-7.0.8/packages/teuchos/python/src'
>> make[3]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>> make[3]: Leaving directory
>> `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/trilinos-7.0.8/packages/teuchos/python'
>> make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>> make[2]: Leaving directory
>> `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/trilinos-7.0.8/packages/teuchos'
>> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory
>> `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/trilinos-7.0.8/packages'
>> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.40021 (%install)|
>>
>>
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