[snake-farm] Broken build system as of 2002-06-04

[Michael Hudson]

Anders Qvist <quest at lysator.liu.se> writes:

> The snake-farm has been choking on the python CVS source since
> 2002-06-04, like thus (on _all_ platforms):

I've noticed :)

> The problem occurs only when building the python source in a separate
> build dir. Eg:
> 
>   cd build
>   ../pythonb/dist/src/config

You mean .../configure, right?

>   make all
> 
> It seems to me that sysconfig.py is unaware that building may occur in
> a separate directory.

Well, it's more than that, because I build like this all the time and
don't get the failures.  Are the scripts the snake-farm uses viewable
anywhere?

Cheers,
M.