[Python-Dev] should I really have to install Python before Ican build it ? (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon bcannon at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 22:17:32 CET 2005

On 12/12/05, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:

Jeremy Hylton wrote:

> The C files are checked into subversion. Perhaps there is some > problem with the timestamps that causes the Makefile to try to rebuild > them anyway? I have a modern Python and I've been doing a fair amount > of development on these files; as a result, I haven't noticed a > problem. ah, of course. subversion sets the timestamp to the checkout time for each file, so things may or may not work after a fresh checkout. however, adslc does use the installed python, rather than the local version: #! /usr/bin/env python """Generate C code from an ASDL description.""" maybe the right thing here would be to change this to #!./python """Generate C code from an ASDL description.""" and only run the script if ./python has been built ?

What if you build with a different suffix for the executable? Or do different versions of make build different names (e.g., on my OS X machine the executable is python.exe in my checkout, not python)?

The idea seems fine to me, though, since the generated files are already checked out.

-Brett

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