Cannot build from a git clone about rdiff-backup

[jjdavis]

A probably inelegant way around that is to copy setup.py from rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/dist to rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup and then munge a couple of paths to files:

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< 	  ext_modules = [Extension("rdiff_backup.C", ["cmodule.c"]),
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> 	  ext_modules = [Extension("rdiff_backup.C", ["rdiff_backup/cmodule.c"]),
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< 							   ["_librsyncmodule.c"],
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> 							   ["rdiff_backup/_librsyncmodule.c"],
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< 					 ['CHANGELOG', 'COPYING', 'README', 'FAQ.html'])],
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> 					 ['CHANGELOG', 'COPYING', 'README'])],

That let me run python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local successfully on an Ubuntu 16.04 box after cloning the current distribution.

[ardovm]

For what I could understand, the script rdiff-backup/dist/makedist.py shall be used to make an archive of the sources.

The command:
$ python dist/makedist.py 1.2.3
will generate the file rdiff-backup-1.2.3.tar.gz. Such archive should allow installation by means of setup.py.

[ericzolf]

If you have a look at PR#53 ./setup.py build works flawlessly, I haven't looked yet at the packaging framework though, but I would argue that setup.py doesn't need absolutely to work from a tarball. Hence we could close this issue once the branch is merged.

[ottok]

To confirm the project is buildable I've created a Dockerfile to containerize the build (and dependencies). Works well now, so closing this issue.