On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> Er, normally you don't need *any* Python installed to build Python (be >> it 3.x or 2.x). > > Are you sure about this? I remember needing an existing Python to > building Python 2.7 on a new python-less install of FreeBSD a couple > of months ago. But maybe that was just an issue with timestamps on > files. I'll see if I can reproduce.
With a fresh checkout of the release27-maint branch on an Ubuntu 64-bit VM, with /usr/bin/python renamed to /usr/bin/python_not_here, a './configure && make' fails with: [...] checking for socklen_t... yes checking for build directories... done configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile.pre config.status: creating Modules/Setup.config config.status: creating Misc/python.pc config.status: creating Modules/ld_so_aix config.status: creating pyconfig.h creating Modules/Setup creating Modules/Setup.local creating Makefile ./Parser/asdl_c.py -h ./Include ./Parser/Python.asdl /usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory make: *** [Include/Python-ast.h] Error 127 I think this is the same problem that I saw on the FreeBSD VM. Mark _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
