[Python-Dev] BUILDEXE erroneously empty on 2.2.2 for Mac OS X?

[Jack Jansen]

On Wednesday, Feb 5, 2003, at 15:53 Europe/Amsterdam, Michael Hudson 
wrote:
>> I think the build worked fine for me back in October (at least I don't
>> remember having to execute "make BUILDEXE=.exe".  It seems something 
>> changed
>> in the intervening time.
>
> Hmm.  Looking at CVS suggests that 2.2 sets BUILDEXE correctly if you
> are building in-tree, but not out of tree.  Could that be the
> difference?

Ah, that's the problem! Building out-of-tree doesn't work on the 2.2.X 
branch.

This was in patch #557719, which was checked in as Makefile.pre.in 
1.86. It wasn't
backported because the patch does more than only enabling out-of-tree 
builds, and the
rest of the patch can't be backported.
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