perf install-python_ext installing .o files in python site-packages

[Josh Boyer]

Hi Arnaldo,

We've had a report [1] that the python-perf package in Fedora installs
a handful of .o files in /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/.  This is
true on Linus' latest tree, but it goes back to arriving with the 4.2
kernel.

Digging around a bit, it seems the files installed are those that are
found as relative paths in the utils/python-ext-sources directory:

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/bitmap.o
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/find_bit.o
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/hweight.o
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rbtree.o

None of those files should really be installed at all, as they're
temporary object files used to build perf.so.

As far as I can tell, this is a side effect of using the python
distutils module with it's setup.py script.  The sources are listed
there so they get included, but then the build_ext functionality
interprets it as e.g.:

-c ../lib/hweight.c -o python_ext_build/tmp/../lib/hweight.o

That leaves it in the lib/ directory of the build output alongside the
final perf.so instead of python_ext_build/tmp/util/ like the rest of
the object files.  It happens to be an unfortunate coincidence that
install-lib looks in said .../lib/ directory and we just happen to
conflict with that naming.  So when install-python_ext is called, it
simply copies everything in that directory, including the .o files.

I'm not enough of a python wizard to figure out how to fix this
quickly.  We could remove the .o files in the .spec file, but that
seems hacky and this should probably be fixed in the perf build
system.

Ideas?

josh

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1312102