[Python-Dev] what is the significance of "plat-linux2" in the python build process?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 09:01:01 -0400 (EDT)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> 
>   this build process works just fine for everyone else on the planet
> but it fails for me because i'm doing something apparently no one else
> has tried -- i'm running a (hand-rolled) linux 3.x kernel on my build
> host and it *seems* that that's what's messing up the python
> compilation somewhere in the WRL build scripts.  (as a side note, i
> have run across other issues in the WRL build system where it was
> simply never imagined that one might want to build on a system running
> a 3.x kernel, so that's why i'm suspecting it has something to do with
> that.  apparently, i'm out there on the bleeding edge and this is what
> might be causing me grief.)

You could take a look at http://bugs.python.org/issue12326
The current 2.7 branch should work for you, you'll have to get it from
the Mercurial repository.

That says, the plat-* stuff is quite useless as it is. There's a patch
here to improve its usefulness slightly:
http://bugs.python.org/issue12619

Although I would question the existence of such undocumented modules,
which are hardly even used internally.

Regards

Antoine.