Use bdist instead of install for creating binay distrution. During installation,

untar this to destination.

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -60,9 +60,10 @@ set(PYMOOSE_SOURCE_DIR "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/moose-core")
 set(PYMOOSE_BUILD_DIR ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/__moose-core_build)
 
 # NOTE: new setuptools does not install python module to this directory unless
-# it supports .pth file or PYTHONPATH points to it. Make sure when moose-core is
-# installing into user_specified path, set PYTHONPATH to this directory.
+# installing into user_specified path, set PYTHONPATH to this directory. We now
+# create a bdist to this directory.
 set(PYMOOSE_INSTALL_DIR ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/__moose-core_install)
+set(PYMOOSE_BDIST_DIR ${PYMOOSE_BUILD_DIR}/)
 
 if(WITH_GUI)
     set(MOOSE_GUI_DIR ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/moose-gui)

cmake/build_moose-core.sh.in

@@ -11,20 +11,18 @@ if [ -z "$MAKE" ]; then
     MAKE=make
 fi
 
-echo "Building MOOSE"
-(
-    export GSL_ROOT_DIR=@GSL_ROOT_DIR@
-    export HDF5_ROOT=@HDF5_ROOT@
-    cd @PYMOOSE_BUILD_DIR@
-    cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=@PYMOOSE_INSTALL_DIR@ \
-        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-        -DWITH_BOOST=@WITH_BOOST@ \
-        -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=@PYTHON_EXECUTABLE@ \
-        -DVERSION_MOOSE=@MOOSE_VERSION@ \
-        @CMAKE_PYMOOSE_ARGS@ \
-        @PYMOOSE_SOURCE_DIR@ 
-    $MAKE
-    ctest -output-on-failure || echo "Some tests failed"
-    $MAKE install
-)
-
+echo "Building pymoose and creating bdist."
+export GSL_ROOT_DIR=@GSL_ROOT_DIR@
+export HDF5_ROOT=@HDF5_ROOT@
+cd @PYMOOSE_BUILD_DIR@
+cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=@PYMOOSE_INSTALL_DIR@ \
+    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+    -DWITH_BOOST=@WITH_BOOST@ \
+    -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=@PYTHON_EXECUTABLE@ \
+    -DVERSION_MOOSE=@MOOSE_VERSION@ \
+    -DPYMOOSE_BDIST_DIR=@PYMOOSE_BDIST_DIR@ \
+    @CMAKE_PYMOOSE_ARGS@ \
+    @PYMOOSE_SOURCE_DIR@ 
+$MAKE
+ctest --output-on-failure || echo "Some tests failed"
+$MAKE bdist

moose-core/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -393,6 +393,7 @@ endif()
 ######################### BUILD PYMOOSE ########################################
 add_subdirectory( pymoose )
 
+
 ######################### INSTALL ##############################################
 
 if(DEBUG)
@@ -449,6 +450,22 @@ if(${CMAKE_BUILD_TOOL} MATCHES "make")
         )
 endif()
 
+# Target for creating bdist. This is handy for creating bdist for packaging.
+# Save the binary distribution (tar.gz) to PYMOOSE_BDIST_DIR. Note that this
+# target is only useful when creating packages on Open Build Service i.e. if you
+# use this target on distribution X, it may not work on distrbutions other than
+# X. See python-wheels for making portable distributions.
+if(NOT PYMOOSE_BDIST_DIR)
+    set(PYMOOSE_BDIST_DIR ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/pymoose_bdist)
+endif( )
+add_custom_target( bdist 
+    DEPENDS pymoose
+    COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} setup.cmake.py bdist -d ${PYMOOSE_BDIST_DIR}
+    WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/python
+    COMMENT "Genearating bdist using setup.cmake.py." 
+    VERBATIM
+    )
+
 
 ############################ CTEST ######################################
 include( CTest )