[Python-Dev] "make touch" replaced with "make regen-all"

[Jeremy Kloth]

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 5:20 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> This change broke the Coverage job on Travis CI, because sysconfig.py
> uses get_config_var('AST_H_DIR') to build sysconfig.get_python_inc():
> http://bugs.python.org/issue30273
>
> sysconfig was modified in 2012. "Include" was replaced with
> get_config_var('AST_H_DIR') by:
> https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/998c8a8f2aea
> => see http://bugs.python.org/issue15366
>
> To fix the Coverage job, I reverted this change:
> https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b109a1d3360fc4bb87b9887264e3634632d392ca
>
> I'm unable to reproduce http://bugs.python.org/issue15366 bug: "venv
> assumes header files in sys._home + '/Include' ".

To reproduce, Python need to be compiled {builddir} != {srcdir} as
noted in the README.
I've submitted a PR that fixes this (previous?) regression and still
permits the Makefile changes.

> It seems like venv and virtualend have been updated in the meanwhile
> to add ${venv}/include to the include directories when building an
> extension.

Yes, http://bugs.python.org/issue16116

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Jeremy Kloth