[sword-devel] python3 module ?

pierre amadio amadio.pierre at gmail.com
Sat Jun 15 03:12:59 MST 2019 

I was able to build the python3 module with the latest sword svn
source on my laptop (RHEL7).
Thanks a lot !

On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 19:29, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ah, perhaps I am not building the Python 3 bindings for EPEL, because
> that's a beast and EPEL has Python 2 by default. So rather than keep
> up with the backport treadmill on EPEL7, I stuck with just Python 2
> bindings. However, you can see here in the Fedora spec file how the
> Python 3 bindings are being built. Notice, though, that there are a
> few minor patches I apply to 1.8.1 (but which should all be present in
> SVN master branch) in order to get it to build.
>
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/sword/blob/master/f/sword.spec
>
> The notable parts are
>
>        -DSWORD_PYTHON_3:BOOL=TRUE \
>
> In 1.8.1 the language I use for building Python 2/3 changed to support
> building both out of the same source. This required creating separate
> bool values for both py2 and py3 and allowing both to be built
> simultaneously. The most important patch to the source that should
> enable that is https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/sword/blob/master/f/sword-1.8.1-swig.diff
> along with https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/sword/blob/master/f/sword-1.8.1-cmake.diff.
>
> I would like to get a 1.8.2 wrapped up once Troy is finished with his
> Bishop 1.2.0 work, and include quite a few fixes. However, I have not
> had access to our Jenkins CI system for some time. I'll need to work
> with Troy to get that back so I can update release procedures and
> bundle up 1.8.2 to include things like the Python binding build fixes.
>
> --Greg
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 12:05 PM pierre amadio <amadio.pierre at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello !
> >
> > I do not have access to the debian box i had trouble with when i wrote
> > the mail (i should have access to it again in some weeks or monthes),
> > but it was a debian stable with sword 1.8.1
> >
> > i kept note on the way i build things usually with python2 here:
> > https://github.com/pierre-amadio/SwordSandBox/blob/master/notes.txt
> >
> > as well as how i try to do thing with python3:
> > https://github.com/pierre-amadio/SwordSandBox/blob/master/python/ankistuff/notes.txt
> >
> > When i succeed building something that worked in an ugly way (changing
> > stuff manually) as above, it was on a RHEL7.5 with sword 1.8.1, on a
> > box i have still access to (my main laptop).
> >
> > I did not use any configure switched to mention i wanted python3
> > binding, so i guess this is what i missed, but i m still puzzled:
> >
> > - On the sword-1.8.1-3.el7.src.rpm that comes with epel, the spec file
> > is set to build a python module indeed, but i do not undertsand how it
> > is supposed to pick python3 (i must admit i m not really used to
> > cmake).
> >
> > %cmake -DLIBSWORD_LIBRARY_TYPE=Shared \
> >        -DSWORD_BINDINGS="Python" \
> > ...
> > ...
> > and later, in the files section, it looks like a macro speciffically
> > mention python2:
> >
> > %files python
> > %{python2_sitearch}/Sword.py
> >
> > - I try to see what switch was available with the build process i was used to:
> >
> > cd sword-1.8.1
> > ./autogen.sh
> > #not finding python3 specific stuff here
> > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sword --with-clucene --with-curl_sftp
> > --enable-examples
> > make
> > make install
> > make install_config
> >
> > And then building the python module:
> >
> > cd ~/tmp/sword-1.8.1/bindings/swig/package
> > ./autogen.sh
> > #Here the configure let me specify with python version i m interested
> > in. Let s try:
> > ./configure PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/sword/lib/pkgconfig
> > CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/sword/include/" --with-python=/usr/bin/python3
> >
> > But it does not look good:
> >
> > #######################
> > checking for Python prefix...
> > checking for Python exec-prefix...
> > checking for Python version...   File "<string>", line 1
> >     import string,operator; print
> > operator.getitem(string.split(string.__file__,'/'),-2)
> >                                          ^
> > SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> >
> > checking for Python header files...
> > checking for Python library... Not found
> > ########################
> >
> > So i cannot continue with the expected:
> >
> > make pythonswig
> > PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/sword/lib/pkgconfig
> > CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/sword/include/" make python_make
> >
> > Is it having problem with system where both python2 and python3 are installed ?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 00:46, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > What version are you trying with? What error message are you getting?
> > >
> > > The bindings have supported python2/3 for quite some time using nothing more than a configure time switch. I build both for Fedora/EPEL, as can be seen in the official spec file.
> > >
> > > --Greg
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jun 9, 2019, 13:03 pierre amadio <amadio.pierre at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hello.
> > >>
> > >> Some times ago, i managed to build a python3 sword module with some
> > >> hack (changing manually the content of the setup.py genrated by make
> > >> pythonswig because subprocess.run does not work in python3).
> > >> This was on a Red Hat based box.
> > >> Now that i try again on Debian, the make pythonswig process itself fail.
> > >>
> > >> Is there any plan to have official support for python3 in a future release ?
> > >>
> > >> Is there by any chance already a branch of some devel tree i could
> > >> clone and get a local version of sword with pyton3 module ?
> > >>
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