[Paraview] make install breaks pvpython on MacOSX

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Axel,

Evidently, I already fixed this a little while ago. I'm attaching the patch.

http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=14148

Utkarsh


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> Axel,
>
> This is a known issue. I'll track the issue down and let you know.
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Loewe, Axel (IBT) <axel.loewe at kit.edu> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I built ParaView locally from the current source tree (4.0.1) with
>> PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON set to ON in CMake. When calling pvpython in the
>> build directory, importing paraview.simple works fine. However, this is not
>> the case after running make install and calling pvpython from the
>> paraview.app/Contents/bin directory.
>>
>>>>> from paraview import simple
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> ImportError: No module named paraview
>>
>> I can fix this by manually setting the environment variable PYTHONPATH to
>> include paraview.app/Contents/Python and paraview.app/Contents/Libraries
>> However, http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Python_Scripting#Getting_Started
>> states that setting PYTHONPATH manually should not be required when using
>> pvpython which is indeed the case for the prebuilt binary package.
>>
>> Did I miss to set a CMake flag appropriately? Everything a search related to
>> this issue brought up was setting PYTHONPATH manually which I feel can't be
>> the only solution.
>>
>> The output of sys.path from pvpython in the build directory and in the .app
>> package produced by make install is as follows:
>>
>> ParaView-bin2/bin/pvpython:
>> ['',
>> '/Volumes/pommard/Benutzer/al128/usr/build/ParaView-bin2/lib/site-packages',
>> '/Volumes/pommard/Benutzer/al128/usr/build/ParaView-bin2/lib',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python27.zip',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload',
>> '/Volumes/pommard/Benutzer/al128/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PyObjC',
>> '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages']
>>
>> Applications/paraview.app/Contents/bin/pvpython:
>> ['', '/Volumes/pommard/Benutzer/al128/usr/lib',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python27.zip',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload',
>> '/Volumes/pommard/Benutzer/al128/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages',
>> '/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PyObjC',
>> '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages']
>>
>> To me it looks like pvpython in the .app package does not append
>> paraview.app/Contents/Python and paraview.app/Contents/Libraries to the path
>> while pvpython in the build directory appends to corresponding folders
>> ParaView-bin2/lib/site-packages and ParaView-bin2/lib for some reason.
>>
>> Any help regarding a solution without setting PYTHONPATH manually is greatly
>> appreciated!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> _____________________________________________
>> Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
>> Institute of Biomedical Engineering
>>
>> Axel Loewe, M.Sc.
>> Scientific Staff
>>
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