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

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, adsl_c 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