[Python-Dev] make install failing with current cvs (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:55:50 -0500

Make install has started failing on me with the current CVS tree. The problem is that I have various third-party packages installed in site-python that have inconsistent tab usage (PyOpenGL and Numeric are two of the more popular ones). The compileall step gets TabError exceptions for these files, and this causes it to finally exiting with a non-zero exit status.

I think either compileall should skip site-packages, or it should at least not abort the install if there are compile errors there.

Maybe for compiling site-packages a separate Python invocation could be used that doesn't use -tt.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)