[New-bugs-announce] [issue8475] build-installer fix for doc building on OSX 10.4

[David Bolen]

New submission from David Bolen <db3l.net at gmail.com>:

The attached suggested patch changes build-installer to pass along the same Python executable that it itself is running under to the documentation Makefile.  This fixes an issue on OSX where pruning the PATH reverts to the system python (2.3.5) which is too old for Sphinx.  

This does now mean that build-installer itself needs to be run under 2.5+ which contradicts its initial usage comments.  I suspect we should just give up supporting it under 2.3, since an underlying tool no longer supports that, but have not changed those comments in this patch

----------
assignee: ronaldoussoren
components: Macintosh
files: build-installer.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 103790
nosy: db3l, ronaldoussoren
severity: normal
status: open
title: build-installer fix for doc building on OSX 10.4
type: compile error
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17014/build-installer.diff

_______________________________________
Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org>
<http://bugs.python.org/issue8475>
_______________________________________