[Python-Dev] python 2 for building python 3

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Dec 4 14:41:55 CET 2010


Le samedi 04 décembre 2010 à 13:39 +0000, Mark Dickinson a écrit :
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> >> Er, normally you don't need *any* Python installed to build Python (be
> >> it 3.x or 2.x).
> >
> > Are you sure about this?  I remember needing an existing Python to
> > building Python 2.7 on a new python-less install of FreeBSD a couple
> > of months ago.  But maybe that was just an issue with timestamps on
> > files.  I'll see if I can reproduce.
> 
> With a fresh checkout of the release27-maint branch on an Ubuntu
> 64-bit VM, with /usr/bin/python renamed to /usr/bin/python_not_here, a
> './configure && make' fails with:

How about with the release tarball? Perhaps SVN doesn't get timestamps
right.





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