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

Brett Cannon bcannon at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 23:31:32 CET 2005


On 12/12/05, Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin.org> wrote:

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 20:43 +0100, Fredrik Lundh 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. You can change this by setting use-commit-times=true in ~/.subversion/config

What do other people think of this option? Sounds reasonable to me. if people like it I will add this to the suggested config options specified in the dev FAQ.

-Brett



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