I am trying to build python 2.6.2 from the source by following the instructions in README that comes with the source. The configure and make steps are fine, but there is an error in "make install" step. This "make install" attempts to build a lot of lib, and it complains about the lack of "unicodedata" shared object,
I looked at the source tree and the build result, unicodedata.so does not exist. I further notice that in Modules/Setup.dist, the line for unicodedata.c is commented out by default. So I uncomment it, and experiment with rebuilding everything. This time, with or without re-configure, the "make" step failed with a link-time error when linking for libpython2.6.a due to "undefined reference to 'initunicodedata'. This symbol is defined in unicodedata.c, but unicodedata.o is not used in linking for libpython2.6.a, hence the error. So this is a problem in the generated Makefile. Does anyone know what special things I have to do to avoid such error? Is there any known problems in the configure/make files in the python 2.6.2 source code that require special patch? Is unicodedata.c really needed in python 2.6.2? If it is needed, why it is commented out by default in Modules/Setup.dist? If it is not needed, why "make install" attempts to use it in compiling the libraries? Why those libraries are not designed to be compiled in the make step, but in the install step? Thanks for your help! - Weidong -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
