Instead of using distutils/setuptools for installing the Python code,
just install it into our own Python directory.
Distutils is being removed from Python, and setuptools doesn't work well
when trying to install into your own location. For our usage its just
simpler to install with make.
In addition to removing the configure check for distutils, also remove
the check for pyyaml. This lets the user install pyyaml after Suricata
is installed, and Suricata-Update does handle this case gracefully.
Issue: #5313
Autoconf/automake and python setup.py don't play that well
together with out of tree builds.
Makes suricatasc not an autoconf input file, instead use the
defaults module that is already being created.
In the case of an out of tree build, copy the generated defaults.py
to the build directory manually.
When we install to a non-standard prefix, the Python modules
are not in the standard location requiring the PYTHONPATH
to be fixed up.
This wa a pre-existing issue with suricatasc, and not due to
the move into the python directory.
Will be built and installed as part of the Python code used
for suricatactl, which is intended to be the generic place
for all Python utility code that gets installed with Suricata.
No change to suricatasc code.
Use a new directory, Python to host the Suricata python modules.
One entry point is suricatactl, a control script for
miscalleneous tasks. Currently onl filestore pruning
is implemented.
Shivani Bhardwaj
Victor Julien
Jason Ish
Jeff Lucovsky
jason taylor
Jason Ish