Another Python namespace pollution (was: r147958 - in /trunk/libstdc++-v3: ChangeLog Mak...)

Thu Jan 27 10:38:00 GMT 2011

Hi Gerald,
Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> I noticed that coming from the Java side of things we also have two
> files that are installed in common namespace:
>> share/python/aotcompile.py
> share/python/classfile.py
>> These have been added by the following patch from all can tell:
>> 2008年06月30日 Joshua Sumali <jsumali@redhat.com>
> Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
>> * configure.ac (java-home): new AC_ARG_ENABLE.
> (aot-compile-rpm): Likewise.
> :
> * contrib/aot-compile.in: New file.
> * contrib/aotcompile.py.in: Likewise.
> * contrib/aot-compile-rpm.in: Likewise.
> * contrib/classfile.py: Likewise.
> * contrib/rebuild-gcj-db.in: Likewise.
>> This is also http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47484 .

I'm on the hook to fix this, but it's been a while since I worked on
this stuff so I'm a little out of touch with GCC. Can you tell me
what you mean by "common namespace", and what the alternative should
be?
Thanks,
Gary
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