[Libreoffice] [PATCH] Make pyuno work with system python

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 07:12:55PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> Caolán McNamara píše v Po 22. 08. 2011 v 11:00 +0100:
>> On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 11:36 +0200, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
>>> Should apply to master, worth backporting to 3.4.

>> I've hacked around this with...

>> echo "import sys, os" > uno.py
>> echo "sys.path.append('%{basisinstdir}/program')" >> uno.py
>> echo "os.putenv('URE_BOOTSTRAP', 'vnd.sun.star.pathname: %{baseinstdir}/program/fundamentalrc')" >> uno.py
>> cat $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{basisinstdir}/program/uno.py >> uno.py

>> in our own spec for a while, so integrating the fix would be good.

>> However....

>> a) do we need the PYTHONPATH hack in soffice.sh, I seem to be able to
>> get away without it ?

> I guess that PYTHONPATH hack in soffice.sh is not needed when you
> install uno.py and unohelper.py into %{python_sitearch}. It might be
> needed when you keep it in libreoffice/basis dir.

See pyuno/source/loader/pyuno_loader.cxx, function
prependPythonPath and its caller CreateInstance; my guess is that it
adds the exact same entry to PYTHONPATH, but I can't immediately
follow all layers of indirection to see what it adds exactly.

And the added line of the patch to uno.py seems to do the _same_ thing
_again_. I don't quite understand the utility of doing it in uno.py:
if uno.py is being loaded (presumably from its place in
@libdir@/@OOOINSTALLDIRNAME@/basis-link/program), it means the python
load path already contains that. If the python load path does not
contain that directory, adding it from within uno.py does not help
because of chicken-and-egg problem of python finding uno.py in the
first place.

Unless we want to allow distributions to install uno.py in
%{python_sitearch}, but *not* the other things it needs, such as
pyuno.so; I'm not sure I get the rationale for wanting to do that.

Can someone show me something that does not work with this patch, but
works with it?

-- 
Lionel