patchelf-wrapper

Note: patchelf-wrapper was originally developed because many Linux distributions at the time lacked patchelf in their distro package managers. That's changed in the intervening years, so this project isn't particularly relevant anymore. Instead, I recommend that you install patchelf through your distro's package manager (or failing that, building from source).

patchelf-wrapper is a simple Python module that assists in the installation of the patchelf utility. It's intended for use with PyPI-hosted Python projects that depend on patchelf. If you're an end-user of patchelf, you should look elsewhere! (Perhaps your distro's package manager?)

Currently, patchelf-wrapper installs patchelf 0.11.

Usage

Ordinarily, you'll just want to set 'patchelf-wrapper' as one of your requirements (e.g. in setup.py). If installing directly, you can just use python setup.py install or python setup.py build as usual; this respects all the usual options, including automatically installing patchelf into the bin dir of a virtualenv if one is active.

In addition, patchelf-wrapper contains the following setup commands beyond the defaults:

• check_patchelf: Checks if patchelf is already installed on the system
• build_patchelf: Extract patchelf's source and build it
• install_patchelf: Install patchelf to the chosen location

License

This project is licensed under the BSD 3-clause license. Patchelf itself is licensed under the GPL, version 3.