[Python-Dev] test_symtable failing on Linux

[Guido van Rossum]

> This is a problem I don't know how to resolve; perhaps Andrew or Neil
> can.  _symtablemodule.so depends on symtable.h, but setup.py doesn't
> know that.  If you rebuild the .so, it should work.

Mayby this module shouldn't be built by setup.py; it could be added to
Modules/Setup.dist (all the mechanism there still works, it just isn't
used for most modules; but some are still there: posix, _sre).  Then
you can add a regular dependency for it to the regular Makefile.

This is a weakness in general of setup.py, but rarely causes a problem
because the standard Python headers are pretty stable.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)