[Python-Dev] Issue 11715: building Python from source on multiarch Debian/Ubuntu (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Apr 6 01:22:26 CEST 2011

On Apr 02, 2011, at 10:55 AM, Stefan Krah wrote:

In this case, it's clearly Ubuntu who is going to break things. Still, the proposed patch could make life a lot easier for many people.

I'd be more concerned about adding some Debian/Ubuntu special code to setup.py if it wasn't already a rats nest of specialization.

$ grep darwin setup.py | wc -l 41

Not to mention the checks for osf1, unixware7, and openunix8 (!). It's a little ugly trying to run dpkg-architecture on every platform, but I'm not sure anything better can be done, and of course it only needs to run it once.

I'm going to apply the patch to Python 2.7, 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 tomorrow.

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