I wanted to install James Dennis’s Brubeck web framework, but lately I’ve become fanatical about installing nothing, nothing, in the system-wide directories. A simple rm -rf brubeck/ should make it like nothing ever happened.

So that I remember this for next time, here’s how I did an isolated install of Brubeck and all its dependencies on Mac OS Lion.

Install virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper (but of course you’ve already done this, because you’re elite like me).

Make a virtualenv

mkvirtualenv brubeck; cdvirtualenv

ZeroMQ

wget http://download.zeromq.org/historic/zeromq-2.1.9.tar.gz
tar zxf zeromq-2.1.9.tar.gz
cd zeromq-2.1.9
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=.. # Don't install system-wide, just in your virtualenv's directory
make
cd ..

Mongrel2

git clone https://github.com/zedshaw/mongrel2.git
cd mongrel2
emacs Makefile

Add a line like this to the top of the Makefile, so the compiler can find where you’ve installed ZeroMQ’s header and lib files:

OPTFLAGS += -I/Users/emptysquare/.virtualenvs/brubeck/include -L/Users/emptysquare/.virtualenvs/brubeck/lib

and replace PREFIX?=/usr/local with something like: PREFIX?=/Users/emptysquare/.virtualenvs/brubeck

(If you can get this to work with relative instead of absolute paths, please tell me in the comments!)

make
make install
cd ..

Python Packages

Now we need our isolated include/ and lib/ directories available on the path when we install Brubeck’s Python package dependencies. Specifically, the gevent_zeromq package has some C code that needs to find zmq.h and libzmq in order to compile. We’ll do that by setting the LIBRARY_PATH and C_INCLUDE_PATH environment variables:

cd brubeck
export LIBRARY_PATH=/Users/emptysquare/.virtualenvs/brubeck/lib
export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/Users/emptysquare/.virtualenvs/brubeck/include
pip install -I -r ./envs/brubeck.reqs
pip install -I -r ./envs/gevent.reqs

How nice is that?

Brubeck

git clone https://github.com/j2labs/brubeck.git
cd brubeck

I plan to do a little hacking on Brubeck itself soon, so rather than running python setup.py install here, I’m simply including my copy of Brubeck’s source code on my PYTHONPATH.

Next

Once you’re here, you have a completely isolated install of ZeroMQ, Mongrel2, Brubeck, and all its package dependencies. Continue with James’s Brubeck installation instructions at the “A Demo” portion.


Source: emptysquare.net/blog/how-to-do-an-isolated-install-of-brubeck/