Issue 543244: installation atop 2.2 fails (original) (raw)

Created on 2002-04-12 22:55 by david_abrahams, last changed 2022-04-10 16:05 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (7)
msg10298 - (view)	Author: David Abrahams (david_abrahams)	Date: 2002-04-12 22:55
Installing Python 2.2.1 atop Python 2.2 on cygwin fails at the last stage when it tries to create a link from /usr/bin/python.exe -> /usr/bin/python- 2.2.exe. Since the link already exists, installation stops.
msg10299 - (view)	Author: Tim Peters (tim.peters) *	Date: 2002-04-12 23:09
Logged In: YES user_id=31435 Change Group to Platform-specific.
msg10300 - (view)	Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) *	Date: 2002-04-13 23:13
Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Can you report the precise sequence of commands being executed? Normally, it should be if test -f /usr/local/bin/python; \ then rm -f /usr/local/bin/python; \ else true; \ fi (cd /usr/local/bin; ln python2.2 python) If this is the ln that fails, it is not clear why the target already exists: the rm command is supposed to delete it.
msg10301 - (view)	Author: David Abrahams (david_abrahams)	Date: 2002-04-15 00:31
Logged In: YES user_id=52572 No, it's not that ln. Read my report again. It's linking /usr/bin/python -> /usr/bin/python2.2.exe. No "local" in the path. Since I've already installed 2.2.1, I can't reproduce the behavior anymore without building myself a fresh 2.2... but it happened twice, once on a pydebug installation of 2.2.1 over 2.2 and once on a regular build. -Dave
msg10302 - (view)	Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) *	Date: 2002-04-15 21:22
Logged In: YES user_id=21627 The ln I quoted was actually from a Linux 'make install'; I cannot reproduce the cygwin install since I don't have cygwin - but it *should* only differ in the BINDIR. Since there is only one ln invocation in the makefile, it is hard to believe that 'make install' tries to create a link in the reverse direction.
msg10303 - (view)	Author: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz) *	Date: 2002-11-03 03:23
Logged In: YES user_id=33168 David, Jason, is this still a problem? Can this be closed?
msg10304 - (view)	Author: Jason Tishler (jlt63) *	Date: 2002-11-04 18:02
Logged In: YES user_id=86216 AFAICT, this is not (or longer) a problem because Python's Makefile removes the symlink if it exists from a previous make install. Hence, I'm closing this bug report. Feel free to reopen if you have evidence indicating that this problem stills exists. See the following for the details: $ make prefix=/tmp/python/usr bininstall /usr/bin/install -c python.exe /tmp/python/usr/bin/python2.2.exe if test -f libpython2.2.so; then \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libpython2.2.so /tmp/python/usr/lib; \ else true; \ fi if test -f "libpython2.2.dll"; then \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 555 libpython2.2.dll /tmp/python/usr/bin; \ else true; \ fi if test -f /tmp/python/usr/bin/python.exe; \ then rm -f /tmp/python/usr/bin/python.exe; \ else true; \ fi (cd /tmp/python/usr/bin; ln -s python2.2.exe python.exe) $ ls -l --full-time /tmp/python/usr/bin total 2561 -r-xr-xr-x 1 jt Domain U 2580813 Mon Nov 04 12:55:35 2002 libpython2.2.dll lrwxrwxrwx 1 jt Domain U 106 Mon Nov 04 12:55:35 2002 python.exe -> python2.2.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 jt Domain U 40960 Mon Nov 04 12:55:35 2002 python2.2.exe $ make prefix=/tmp/python/usr bininstall /usr/bin/install -c python.exe /tmp/python/usr/bin/python2.2.exe if test -f libpython2.2.so; then \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libpython2.2.so /tmp/python/usr/lib; \ else true; \ fi if test -f "libpython2.2.dll"; then \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 555 libpython2.2.dll /tmp/python/usr/bin; \ else true; \ fi if test -f /tmp/python/usr/bin/python.exe; \ then rm -f /tmp/python/usr/bin/python.exe; \ else true; \ fi (cd /tmp/python/usr/bin; ln -s python2.2.exe python.exe) $ ls -l --full-time /tmp/python/usr/bin total 2561 -r-xr-xr-x 1 jt Domain U 2580813 Mon Nov 04 12:56:31 2002 libpython2.2.dll lrwxrwxrwx 1 jt Domain U 106 Mon Nov 04 12:56:31 2002 python.exe -> python2.2.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 jt Domain U 40960 Mon Nov 04 12:56:31 2002 python2.2.exe