[SOLVED] Packagebuild fails

[p00d73]

Hi, I'm trying to get a package that uses a Python script to process some files. I use os.environ['DESTDIR'], example in the script:

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cremona_root = os.path.join(os.environ['DESTDIR'], 'usr', 'share', 'cremona')

My Makefile looks like this (there's no compiling needed):

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all:
	python buildEllipticCurves.py

Building the package gives following errors, on all the lines where I use os.environ['DESTDIR']:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "buildEllipticCurves.py", line 81, in <module>
    install_cremona()
  File "buildEllipticCurves.py", line 9, in install_cremona
    cremona_root = os.path.join(os.environ['DESTDIR'], 'usr', 'share', 'cremona')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/UserDict.py", line 23, in __getitem__
    raise KeyError(key)
KeyError: 'DESTDIR'

Why can't Python find DESTDIR? Doesn't "make" set DESTDIR automatically at the start?

[stevepusser]

I don't know about python, but in the debian/rules makefiles that I've seen, it's been inside curly brackets:

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DESTDIR= /usr/share
...
...

cp something.py ${DESTDIR}/cremora

Though you can also just use /debian/install files to manually put any file anyplace you wish:

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something.py usr/share/cremora

[p00d73]

Apparently scripts that are called from the Makefile don't support the DESTDIR environment variable, I changed them all to a real path.