CCVS Administrator's Guide Building the CCVS Python Interface Version 3.3 Revised February 15, 2025 Red Hat, Inc. 2600 Meridian Pkwy Durham, NC 27713 919-547-0012 Back to main Documentation page Back to Administrator's Guide   Table of Contents Overview Finding the Source Code Building the Python Module Installing the Python Module Using CCVS in Python   Overview The Python interface to CCVS must sometimes be built after the rest of CCVS is installed. This is the case, for example, when you're using a distribution that doesn't come with a version of Python. If we can't make sure we're using the same version of Python that you are, it may not be safe for us to distribute a pre-built version of the Python interface. Finding the Source Code The source code for the Python interface is in src/other under the directory in which you installed CCVS. So, if you used the default location, it would be /usr/local/ccvs/src/other. The file ccvsmodule.c is the Python module source code. Building the Python Module On a typical Linux system that has the Python development environment installed, the following command should build the CCVS python module. gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,ccvsmodule.so -o ccvsmodule.so -I/usr/local/ccvs/include -I/usr/include/python1.5 ccvsmodule.c -L/usr/local/ccvs/lib -lccvs -lc Installing the Python Module The normal install location for the Python for systems on which we pre-build it is the lib/python directory under the directory in which you installed CCVS. So, if you used the default location, it would be /usr/local/ccvs/lib/python. You should install the module you've built into that location; if you do this, you can set the PYTHONPATH environment variable as described in the Python programmers' guide. Using CCVS in Python See the Python Language API.   <.php3>