[Python-Dev] make install failing with current cvs

[Guido van Rossum]

> Make install has started failing on me with the current CVS tree. The 
> problem is that I have various third-party packages installed in 
> site-python that have inconsistent tab usage (PyOpenGL and Numeric are 
> two of the more popular ones). The compileall step gets TabError 
> exceptions for these files, and this causes it to finally exiting with 
> a non-zero exit status.
> 
> I think either compileall should skip site-packages, or it should at 
> least not abort the install if there are compile errors there.

Maybe for compiling site-packages a separate Python invocation could
be used that doesn't use -tt.

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