[libhid-discuss] Installing Python wrappers from SVN

[Sarah Mount]

Hi all,

I'm trying to compile and install libhid from the latest SVN source
(in response to the other thread on SWIG!). I'm using Ubuntu Ibex and
I notice that by default the "prefix" used by configure/make is
/usr/local/ which causes a problem with installing the Python SWIG
wrappers on Ibex.

Running configure with '--prefix=/usr/' helps but the following files:

_hid.a          _hid.la  _hid.so        hidwrap.pyc   __init__.pyo
hid_ctypes.py   hid.py   _hid.so.0      hidwrap.pyo
hid_ctypes.pyc  hid.pyc  _hid.so.0.0.0  __init__.py
hid_ctypes.pyo  hid.pyo  hidwrap.py     __init__.pyc

get installed in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libhid/. Now,
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ is on the PYTHONPATH, so that's
great, but now the top level hid.py and hidwrap.py are in the
.../libhid/ directory, meaning that they can't be imported directly
(checking this Python indeed raises an ImportError).

Importing libhid.hid looks like it ought to work but actually gives
the following error:

>>> import libhid.hid
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr//lib/python2.5/site-packages/libhid/__init__.py", line
11, in <module>
    import _hid
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libhid/_hid.so:
undefined symbol: assert
>>>

I would guess that this only needs a small change in the way I'm using
the autoconf/make tools to fix, but I can't figure out which variable
needs changing. Any help gratefully received!

Many thanks,

Sarah

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