[Python-Dev] should I really have to install Python before Ican build it ?

[Daniel Berlin]

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 20:43 +0100, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> 
> > The C files are checked into subversion.  Perhaps there is some
> > problem with the timestamps that causes the Makefile to try to rebuild
> > them anyway?  I have a modern Python and I've been doing a fair amount
> > of development on these files; as a result, I haven't noticed a
> > problem.
> 
> ah, of course.  subversion sets the timestamp to the checkout time for each
> file, so things may or may not work after a fresh checkout.
You can change this by setting use-commit-times=true in
~/.subversion/config