how to include a .so file in my python rpm

[Erik Blankinship]

In my python application, I need to include a .so binary I built of a custom
gstreamer plugin.  My python application works fine with this plugin when
launching from the command line.

Now that I am packaging my python application into a fedora rpm, I need to
compile the plugin as part of the packaging process?

I ask because when I try to include the .so file in %files and part of the
manifest, I get this error from rpmbuild:

"arch dependent binaries in noarch package"

Could someone point me to an example of how to create a spec file which
shows how to include "nested" c code so as to avoid this error and
successfully build my rpm?

Thanks much.  Erik

[Robin Lee]

Just remove the line 'BuildArch:      noarch' from your specfile?

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Erik Blankinship <jedierikb(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote:

>  In my python application, I need to include a .so binary I built of
> a
>  custom gstreamer plugin.  My python application works fine with this plugin
>  when launching from the command line.
>
>  Now that I am packaging my python application into a fedora rpm, I need to
>  compile the plugin as part of the packaging process?
>
>  I ask because when I try to include the .so file in %files and part of the
>  manifest, I get this error from rpmbuild:
>
>  "arch dependent binaries in noarch package"
>
>  Could someone point me to an example of how to create a spec file which
>  shows how to include "nested" c code so as to avoid this error and
>  successfully build my rpm?
>
>  Thanks much.  Erik
>
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[Erik Blankinship]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Robin Lee <robinlee.sysu(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Just remove the line 'BuildArch:      noarch' from your
> specfile?
>
>  
That was easy!  Thank you.

Now, if I wanted to build a noarch rpm, is there an example of how I would
go about building my custom gstreamer .so plugin files in my spec file? Or
am I not understanding how "noarch" works?

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 20:48 -0500, Erik Blankinship wrote:
>  
>  
>  On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Robin Lee <robinlee.sysu(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  wrote:
>          Just remove the line 'BuildArch:      noarch' from your
>          specfile?
>          
>  
>  
>  That was easy!  Thank you.
>  
>  
>  Now, if I wanted to build a noarch rpm, is there an example of how I
>  would go about building my custom gstreamer .so plugin files in my
>  spec file? Or am I not understanding how "noarch" works? 
Right. The 'noarch' tag denotes a 'binary' package that is not
arch-specific; it will work without modification on any architecture. A
package that includes compiled C code is clearly *not* arch-independent,
you can't apply the noarch tag to it. If your package includes a
compiled C extension, you cannot mark it as noarch.

I suspect you may want to read the Python packaging guidelines -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python - to make sure you're
doing everything else right, too. Pay particular attention to
python_sitelib vs. python_sitearch .
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