Re: Getting try-ark to work (python: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.)

>> ./ark-site-gen < Makefile.in > Makefile || { /bin/rm -f Makefile ; exit
>> 1; } python: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
>> make: *** [Makefile] Error 1
>
> I don't know the answer, but my suspicion is right at first
> line of ./ark-site-gen, namely:
>
># ! /usr/bin/env python
>
> I assume that it really will start up python, it doesn't
> care about the space after #!, etc.?

Yes, I tested this with a 2-line python script, AIX 4.3.1 doesn't seem to 
have a problem with this notation. However if you try to call something not 
in the PATH with /usr/bin/env you get an error message exactly like the one 
I'm seeing, so it looks like things you say later in this message will 
work...

>> I can't reproduce the problem by running the listed commands:
>>
>> # cd $HOME/try-ark/ark-builds/ark-site-gen/ALL
>> # /usr/local/bin/make -f Makefile.boot Makefile
>> /bin/rm -f Makefile
>> ./ark-site-gen < Makefile.in > Makefile || { /bin/rm -f Makefile ; exit
>> 1; }
>> /bin/chmod 444 Makefile
>
> If it works in your personal env, but not the one the ARK
> stuff is being run in, maybe they're different in some
> unpleasant way?  PATH setting, in particular.

I was assuming that the environment I invoked try-ark from would be 
inherited, which doesn't seem to be the case. Some things (python for one) 
are in non-standard locations, because I want the current installations to 
be throw-away installs only used to bootstrap ark.

> Perhaps you could stick in an 'env' just before the ark-site-gen
> just to let it show you what's what?

That's an excellent idea. This showed that the PATH was:
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/local1/tmp/
try-ark/our/bin

which was missing /local1/tmp/bootstrap/bin , which is the location of my 
python binary.

> If the PATH is wrong, try editing <ARK-BUILDING-PATH> in
> your team's host/ALL.xml.

I edited that to include /local1/tmp/bootstrap/bin, and try-ark seems to be 
working now (it's in the middle of building packages as I'm writing this).

For the most part I think this is my fault for not reading over ALL.xml, 
but IMHO it wouldn't hurt to change this item in 
http://ark.sourceforge.net/try-ark1.html:

    3. An XML file for proto-host `ALL'. The one we supplied in 
sample1/host/ALL.xml should do nicely.

To something like this:

    3. An XML file for proto-host `ALL'. The one we supplied in 
sample1/host/ALL.xml should do nicely. Be sure to read this file and change 
ARK-BUILDING-PATH if you have programs in nonstandard locations. Ark will 
do builds using ARK-BUILDING-PATH, not by inheriting the PATH of the 
calling environment.

Thanks,
-- 
Daniel Joseph Barnhart Clark
http://www.pobox.com/users/dclark


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