mimms-3.2.1 cannot run on Snow Leopard

[null.atou@…]

mimms needs python25 because PortGroup is python25. So I newly install python25 and python_select on Snow Leopard, then select python25 and newly build mimms. But when execute, "No module named _ctypes" error has occurred.

% head -n1 /opt/local/bin/mimms
#!/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python
% python_select -s
python25
% mimms
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/local/bin/mimms", line 21, in <module>
    from libmimms.core import run
  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libmimms/core.py", line 31, in <module>
    from . import libmms
  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libmimms/libmms.py", line 24, in <module>
    from ctypes import *
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/ctypes/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
    from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array
ImportError: No module named _ctypes

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Should probably move to python26 (and fix the depends_lib) since python25 is not entirely working on 64-bit OS X and upstream never intends to fix it.

[null.atou@…]

Replying to jmr@…:

Should probably move to python26 (and fix the depends_lib) since python25 is not entirely working on 64-bit OS X and upstream never intends to fix it.

OK, I patched Portfile of mimms as follows:

4c4
< PortGroup python25 1.0
---
> PortGroup python26 1.0  # but is it necessary?
24a25
> depends_build   port:python26

then install python26; port_select python26 and install mimms. But, indeed, mimms cannot run, because a "mimms" script was installed to '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/'. What is it? Should I do export PATH=/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/:${PATH} ? :-) Ok, it works fine. But I think a bin directory should be '/opt/local/bin', a lib be '/opt/local/lib' etc., while those of python26, root directory was set to /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/. It's very strange, I think.

[blb@…]

The best method is to symlink the stuff from the framework directory into the base stuff in ${prefix}; see attached.

[blb@…]

diff to Portfile

[null.atou@…]

Replying to blb@…:

The best method is to symlink the stuff from the framework directory into the base stuff in ${prefix}; see attached.

Yes, this patch works fine, too. Symlinks of bin/mimms and man1/mimms.1 are made at appropriate path. tahnk you:-)

[0xced (Cédric Luthi)]

On 10.5, mimms and mimms.1 are correctly installed in /opt/local/bin, respectively /opt/local/share/man/man1

$ port contents mimms
Port mimms contains:
  /opt/local/bin/mimms
  /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libmimms/__init__.py
  /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libmimms/__init__.pyc
  /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libmimms/core.py
  /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libmimms/core.pyc
  /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libmimms/libmms.py
  /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libmimms/libmms.pyc
  /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mimms-3.2-py2.5.egg-info
  /opt/local/share/man/man1/mimms.1.gz

What causes them to be installed in /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin instead of /opt/local/bin ? I'd prefer fixing the problem rather than hacking a post-destroot phase as suggested in the patch.

Also, why depends_lib-append instead of depends_lib?

[blb@…]

The move to python 2.6 is where the framworks-based install is coming from; since you still have it with python 2.5, it's installing in the non-framework location. The reason for preferring 2.6 is that it is the only 2.x currently supported on Mac OS X 10.6 by upstream (2.5 does install but I don't believe it is complete).

The reason for depends_lib-append is that the PortGroup for python sets a depends_lib already (to the proper python port), so appending to it makes sure that dependency isn't overwritten.

[tianyicui@…]

Cc Me!

[tianyicui@…]

Actually it seems as a python25 bug for me:

$ python2.5
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Sep 20 2009, 21:06:51) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from ctypes import *
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/ctypes/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
    from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array
ImportError: No module named _ctypes
>>> 

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Replying to tianyicui@…:

Actually it seems as a python25 bug for me:

Yes. Fixed in version 2.6.

[blb@…]

Updated to python 2.6 in r59144 (maintainer timeout).