Bug 245703

Summary:	pyexpat.so embeds static copy of expat
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Joe Orton <jorton>
Component:	python	Assignee:	James Antill <james.antill>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	katzj
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Description Joe Orton 2007-06-26 07:27:01 UTC

Description of problem:
pyexpat.so embeds a statically linked copy of libexpat - this should either be:

1) fixed to use the system libexpat, or
2) fixed to not pollute the global namespace

Clashes for /usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload/pyexpat.so:
  with /lib64/libexpat.so.0.5.0 => XML_Parse XML_SetExternalEntityRefHandler
(...75 symbols omitted...) XML_ParserCreate

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2007-06-26 23:22:31 UTC

Fixed for 2.5.1-3 to use system expat

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2007-06-27 14:05:38 UTC

This fix is broken. python no longer properly builds elementree; this breaks all
sorts of things.

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2007-06-27 15:08:34 UTC

Ugh.  How nice of the build to continue even when things fail to build.  Fixed
and added something to help avoid that in the future