Hi all, Quick question about a little hiccup in a Python installation:
If you use some sort of package manager and remove an existing Python installation (but preserved all the add-on modules you've installed since the initial Python installation), you'll have an existing /usr/lib/python2.5 directory. Now, if one of the add-on modules you've installed happens to be the PyXML module, then the test suite for Python will fail with a segfault while testing the test_pyexpat.py test. Even though /usr/lib/python2.5 is not in the PYTHONPATH (in fact that envar was unset before I started the Python installation), you'll see this failure. The only way I was able to fix it is to rename the /usr/lib/python2.5 directory before building the package and running 'make test', then renaming it back to /usr/lib/python2.5 before 'make install'. Does anyone know a cleaner way to make Python build/run tests without having to rename the /usr/lib/python2.5 directory? TIA for any information you may have. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.22] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 08:14:00 up 28 days, 23:02, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.03 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
