[Distutils] Changes in RPM affecting Distutils

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

amk at amk.ca writes:
 > It's supposed to be fixed; from bdist_rpm.run():
 > 
 >         rpm_cmd = ['rpm']
 > 	if os.path.exists('/usr/bin/rpmbuild') or \
 > 	   os.path.exists('/bin/rpmbuild'):
 >            rpm_cmd = ['rpmbuild']
 > 
 > Is rpmbuild somewhere else?

No; I see what happened now.  Someone fixed Distutils to use rpmbuild,
but didn't backport it to the Python 2.1 I was using at the time.  ;-)

I guess this is why Marc-Andre uses the latest distutils for all
Python versions, and sheds real light on why Distutils itself should
remain as Python-version-agnostic as possible.  It's needed for
packagers to support current platforms, not just older versions of
Python.  For all-Python packages it's not a big problem, but is more
of a problem when C extensions are involved.


  -Fred

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