[New-bugs-announce] [issue9860] Building python outside of source directory fails

[Alexander Belopolsky]

New submission from Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net>:

When testing config options, it is often useful to build python in a directory different from the root of the source tree.  This is supported by autoconf based builds as follows: you cd to the desired directory run configure with an explicit path. For example:

$ cd ../altdir
$ ../python-source/configure
$ make

However, this fails for python 3.1 and 3.2 with the following error:


i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1: Parser/tokenizer_pgen.o: No such file or directory
i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1: Parser/printgrammar.o: No such file or directory
i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1: Parser/pgenmain.o: No such file or directory
make: *** [Parser/pgen] Error 1

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assignee: belopolsky
components: Interpreter Core
messages: 116448
nosy: belopolsky
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Building python outside of source directory fails
type: compile error
versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2

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