Bug 20015

Summary:	Python2.0 doesn't compile out of the box on RedHat7
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	braunm
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	fweimer
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description braunm 2000-10-30 08:16:55 UTC

Python2.0 doesn't compile out of the box on RedHat7
i.e. using the Python2.0 distribution released about 3 weeks ago 
the compilation bombs out in Include/pyport.h 
this can be circumvented by uncommenting the if endif 
pair immmediately before the line in pyport.h where
the error is reported
this seems to be caused by some changes to limits.h and xopen_limits.h !
The  Python maintainers have been contacted: their reply was 
"We will not make a change in the Python source tree to work around a
broken
Linux distro.  It is straightforward to fix this yourself"

please fix this!!!!
Python is important for you!!

regards

Moritz Braun

UNISA
South Africa

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2000-10-30 08:26:51 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19088 ***