Building software¶

batou has some support for downloading and compiling software packages, aka the configure-make-make install (CMMI) dance. Example usage:

self += Build(
    'http://python.org/ftp/python/3.3.2/Python-3.3.2.tar.bz2',
    checksum='md5:7dffe775f3bea68a44f762a3490e5e28',
    configure_args='--with-libs=-lssl')

class batou.lib.cmmi.Build(url)¶: Download archive from url, extract it and run CMMI on it.

checksum: Checksum for download (see batou.lib.download.Download.checksum for details)

prefix¶: Path to use as prefix for the installation (passed to configure --prefix) [Default: workdir of parent component]

configure_args¶: String of additional arguments to pass to configure.

build_environment¶: Dict of variables to add to the environment during all CMMI invocations.