[Python-3000] Bus error after updating this morning

Sat Aug 18 18:45:00 CEST 2007

On 8/18/07, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
> Thinking maybe something didn't get rebuilt that should have I am
> rebuilding from scratch after a make distclean.
>> make test is actually getting to the point where it's actually running
> tests, so the make distclean seems to have solved the problem. Perhaps
> there's a missing Makefile dependency somewhere.

This typically happens when an essential .h file changes -- the
setup.py scripts that builds the extension module doesn't check these
dependencies. Nothing we can fix in the Makefile, alas.
The shorter fix is rm -rf build.
Thanks for figuring this out! I was just about to start an investigation.
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