#11619: linux kernel 3.0 causes headaches with some python modules
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Reporter: fbissey | Owner: tbd
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: critical | Milestone: sage-4.7.2
Component: packages | Keywords:
Work_issues: | Upstream: Reported upstream. Developers
acknowledge bug.
Reviewer: | Author:
Merged: | Dependencies:
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This is quite fun. Python setup looks at linux major version number and
will build some modules in a folder normally called plat-linux2. With
linux 3.0 it looks for the non-existent plat-linux3.
Upstream report is here:
http://bugs.python.org/issue12326
Not completely sure if there are implication for sage or any of its
components apart from matplotlib where they updated some code to avoid the
problem:
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/commit/aaef94485cf71ed3181e0adc5577d1a8911f6544
One of main problem is that a lot of packages use
{{{
sys.platform == 'linux2'
}}}
when they should use something like
{{{
sys.platform.startswith('linux')
}}}
So we will have to fix python (I will do something in #9958 once I figured
out what upstream is doing) and potentially some other packages which are
looking for linux2.
I think it is too late to do something for 4.7.1 but we should look into
fixing 4.7.2.
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