Author: reinhold.birkenfeld Date: Tue Dec 27 18:37:16 2005 New Revision: 41835 Modified: python/branches/release24-maint/Misc/NEWS python/branches/release24-maint/Modules/Setup.dist Log: [ 959576 ] Can't build Python on POSIX w/o $HOME (backport) Modified: python/branches/release24-maint/Misc/NEWS ============================================================================== --- python/branches/release24-maint/Misc/NEWS (original) +++ python/branches/release24-maint/Misc/NEWS Tue Dec 27 18:37:16 2005 @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ Core and builtins ----------------- +- Bug #959576: The pwd module is now builtin. This allows Python to be + built on UNIX platforms without $HOME set. + - Bug #1379994: Builtin unicode_escape and raw_unicode_escape codec now encodes backslash correctly. Modified: python/branches/release24-maint/Modules/Setup.dist ============================================================================== --- python/branches/release24-maint/Modules/Setup.dist (original) +++ python/branches/release24-maint/Modules/Setup.dist Tue Dec 27 18:37:16 2005 @@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ posix posixmodule.c # posix (UNIX) system calls errno errnomodule.c # posix (UNIX) errno values +pwd pwdmodule.c # this is needed to find out the user's home dir + # if $HOME is not set _sre _sre.c # Fredrik Lundh's new regular expressions _codecs _codecsmodule.c # access to the builtin codecs and codec registry @@ -186,7 +188,6 @@ # supported...) #fcntl fcntlmodule.c # fcntl(2) and ioctl(2) -#pwd pwdmodule.c # pwd(3) #grp grpmodule.c # grp(3) #select selectmodule.c # select(2); not on ancient System V