electrum

commit 384c7cacd7a58b4c6a90c0df21d176f235568401
parent 40281a3193e7d3b6da5b03ea1196fa29a2452258
Author: ThomasV <thomasv@electrum.org>
Date:   Mon, 29 Feb 2016 14:27:21 +0100

Merge pull request #1695 from drizzt/master

Fix installation when --root is specified
Diffstat:
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setup.py
 | 
7
++++++-

1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import os
 import sys
 import platform
 import imp
+import argparse
 
 version = imp.load_source('version', 'lib/version.py')
 
@@ -16,8 +17,12 @@ if sys.version_info[:3] < (2, 7, 0):
 data_files = []
 
 if platform.system() in ['Linux', 'FreeBSD', 'DragonFly']:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument('--root=', dest='root_path', metavar='dir', default='/')
+    opts, _ = parser.parse_known_args(sys.argv[1:])
     usr_share = os.path.join(sys.prefix, "share")
-    if not os.access(usr_share, os.W_OK):
+    if not os.access(opts.root_path + usr_share, os.W_OK) and \
+       not os.access(opts.root_path, os.W_OK):
         if 'XDG_DATA_HOME' in os.environ.keys():
             usr_share = os.environ['$XDG_DATA_HOME']
         else: