On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 13:17 +0000, Alan Milligan wrote: Two solutions: 1) In FC4, there's an rpm script: /usr/lib/rpm/brp-python-bytecompile which performs byte compilation correctly. I believe it will re-compile code that distutils already installed as well. Let this do its job and everything should be fine. 2) To create a spec that works for previous versions of FC you have to recompile the code yourself. Here's a snippet:: %{!?python_sitelib: %define python_sitelib %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")} [...] %install file=roman.py extradest=%{python_sitelib} fullextradest=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/$extradest install -m 0644 extras/$file $fullextradest %{__python} -c "import py_compile; py_compile.compile(\ '$fullextradest/$file', \ '$fullextradest/$file' + 'c', \ '$extradest/$file')" %{__python} -O -c "import py_compile; py_compile.compile(\ '$fullextradest/$file', \ '$fullextradest/$file' + 'o', \ '$extradest/$file')" The variables at top will need some tweaking. In most situations you'll want a for loop instead of simply assigning one value to $file. And you may have to change $extradest if you aren't installing a python module to the sitelib. Don't do this! As you've discovered, it's broken :-) -Toshio