[oe] How do I install python modules for use within recipes?

[Gary Thomas]

On 04/07/2011 06:53 PM, Charles Manning wrote:
> Thanks
>
> What's the story with org.openembedded.dev/contrib/python/generate-manifest*
>
> Do I have to modify that?

No, that's for the internal Python modules.

n.b. don't top post :-)

> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Robert Foerster<robert at erafx.com>  wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Charles Manning<cdhmanning at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have a project which uses python as part of the building process to
>>> generate some C code from some XML which is then later compiled.
>>>
>>> The python script uses the python lxml module.
>>>
>>> My recipe has a do_compile as follows:
>>>
>>> do_compile() {
>>>         cd ${S}/
>>>         make -f Gencode.mk
>>>         make
>>> }
>>>
>>> During the make -f Gencode.mk, the python script which imports lxml
>>> fails to do so and fails.
>>>
>>> Question: How do I instruct OE to set up the lxml module and make it
>>> available here?
>>>
>>>
>> I don't see a recipe for python-lxml-native, so you'll likely have to make
>> one (and then make your recipe depend on it to ensure it's built and
>> available).
>>
>> There are several other python-*-native modules in OE, take a look at what
>> they're doing.
>> http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/tree/recipes/python
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Charles
>>>
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