[Slackbuilds-users] Calibre compilation

[Alexander Verbovetsky]

Hello,

My attempt to build calibre (using slackrepo) failed with the following
error:

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IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/tmp/SBo/calibre-3.9.0/build/pyqt/pictureflow/pictureflow.exp'
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I think that this happens because "setup.py install" drops the root
privileges at some moment:

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Dropping privileges to those of alik: 1000
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Correspondingly, I added to the SlackBuild the following snippet from
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/calibre/build/calibre.SlackBuild
by Eric Hameleers:

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# This dropping of privilege is unnecessary and breaks the SlackBuild:
sed -i -e "s:if os.geteuid() == 0:if False and os.geteuid() == 0:" \
  setup/install.py
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and the error disappeared. This works for both 3.9.0 (SBo version) and
3.23.0 (current version).

Best regards,
Alexander