Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> 2. patching configs and disable byte-compiled scritps. >> this is descendant of #6080, which originated in >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247683 >> if you are not nervous about the issue we can even close #6080 >> i havent seen other folks to complain about the issue. > > This part may not work anymore now that py-comple is not in the tree > anymore (it is provided ay autogen.sh time by the version of automake that > is present). > > However, if performance is not too different, we could just get rid of the > compilation step and just install the files as data (which is what gentoo > fols could have done, it is much simpler).
i'm no python expert to decide whether compilation makes some sense in our case... >> 3. converting all shebangs for correct python version >> (command is a specific routine for gentoo scripts): > > Is the situation better now with the recent python activity? i dont think so. you simply need to go through all .py files and replace #! /usr/bin/env python into python2 but thats thats gentoo issue, nothing we should care about except noting that mangling with python stuff in branch for no good reason can produce headaches for maintainers of other distros as well etc. >> and for the issues with pkgdata_PYTHON in #7990 - the trouble in gentoo is >> that >> you are allowed to have almost all versions of autotools. does the latest >> changes (in branch) shrink range of autotools versions which must be used? > > If you refer to my changes from today in trunk, they are in the contrary > designed to make sure that the helper scripts present in config/ directory > come from the correct version of automake. thanks for info, pavel
