Andreas Enge <[email protected]> skribis: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 06:07:35PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Andreas Enge <[email protected]> skribis: >> > I just noticed that there is a variable native-search-paths in python-2, >> > which looks like it should be updated for python 3. However, when I modify >> > the package accordingly, it is not recompiled. How come? Is this variable >> > really needed? >> >> Yes it is [0]. :-) >> Changing it triggers a recompilation of anything that depends on Python, >> but not of Python itself. > > How can it trigger anything if the output path is identical > (here: /nix/store/0hf9lvd48q1l98k5jf98z17zq29955c4-python-3.3.2)?
It has no effect in the build of Python itself; its effect is only when building Python code that uses Python and one or more Python libs. Ludo’.
