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Commit 66137344feb488ea87b0d92f3c03844d9a7a7786 changed the Python detection mechanism in configure to use AM_PATH_PYTHON. This results in a changed install location for the Python bindings, at least on Fedora 12 64bit systems. Before this commit libvirt.py and libvirtmod.so were installed to /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages After this commit they are installed to /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages Mixed Python packages (containing *.py and *.so files) should be installed to the pyexecdir directory detected by AM_PATH_PYTHON. This restores the install location from before the AM_PATH_PYTHON commit. * configure.in: remove unnecessary pythondir export * python/Makefile.am: switch from pythondir to pyexecdir
libvirt Python Bindings README
==============================
Most of the libvirt python binding code is automatically generated
using the script generator.py, and the API description from
docs/libvirt-api.xml
Manually written files:
- libvirt-override.c: methods where the C binding needs to be hand crafted
- libvirt-override.py: global methods where the C and python bindings have different args
- libvirt-override-api.xml: methods where the auto-extracted API docs are not
suitable for python auto-generator. Overriding this if the method is going
into libvirt-override.c, but we still want auto-generated libvirt-override.py
- libvirt-override-virConnect.py: virConnect class methods
- typewrappers.h,.c: Python object wrappers for each libvirt C object
Auto-generated files:
- libvirt.py: The main python binding. Comprises auto-generated code, along
with contents from libvirt-override.py and libvirt-override-virConnect.py
- libvirt.c, libvirt.h: The C glue layer for the python binding. Comprises
auto-generated code, along with libvirt-override.c
- libvirt-export.c: List of auto-generated C methods, included into
the libvirt-override.c method table