Do not import notmuch in setup.py.

Importing notmuch loads the notmuch shared library. When building
without a system install of notmuch, this requires e.g. setting
LD_LIBRARY_PATH for building and fails completely for cleaning.

diff --git a/bindings/python/setup.py b/bindings/python/setup.py
index e4a3a251b260036e0d496661e6fe02238eed096d..1497bc4372df5ac9f99ded5d06a8b5bf6b8b40a2 100644 (file)
--- a/bindings/python/setup.py
+++ b/bindings/python/setup.py
@@ -1,7 +1,22 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
+import os
+import re
 from distutils.core import setup
-from notmuch import __VERSION__
+
+def get_version():
+    file = open('notmuch/__init__.py')
+    try:
+        for line in file:
+            if re.match('__VERSION__\s*=\s*',line) != None:
+                version = line.split('=', 1)[1]
+                return eval(version, {}, {})
+    finally:
+        file.close()
+    raise IOError('Unexpected end-of-file')
+
+__VERSION__=get_version()
+
 setup(name='notmuch',
       version=__VERSION__,
       description='Python binding of the notmuch mail search and indexing library.',