How to directly copy a file on build?
Hi,
I'm preparing a patch and I have a shared library for python (let's call it g.so) that I need to be installed on build under local/lib/python/site-packages. So, in SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/sage I created a directory gdir contining g.so and other regular python modules.
The problem is that you need haskell to build g.so, therefore I cannot use the python distutils for that. So I'm forced to have the sage builder to copy it directly to local/lib/python/site-packages. I do this by adding a SConstruct file to gdir and (this is the tricky part) adding a pair of lines to the sage builder (local/bin/sage-build) for it to run scons on gdir and make the copy.
I know that the root of the hg repository is SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage but I changed local/bin/sage-build which is beyond it.
Is there an approved way to deal with this? or could you suggest a neater way to do it?
Thanks in advance
