Created attachment 911096 [details]
Update gyp to Python 2.6

gyp is incompatible with the default Python 2.4 on EL5: the tool fails to run due to syntax errors. For example:

bash-3.2# gyp -f make --depth `pwd` http_parser.gyp 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gyp", line 18, in ?
    sys.exit(gyp.main(sys.argv[1:]))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gyp/__init__.py", line 462, in main
    options.circular_check)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gyp/__init__.py", line 61, in Load
    generator = __import__(generator_name, globals(), locals(), generator_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gyp/generator/make.py", line 64
    return params.get('flavor', 'mac' if sys.platform == 'darwin' else 'linux')
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

My guess is that the package should be built on the python26 package available in EPEL. I've attached a possible patch to the spec that works for me.