The rpm sources contain a directory python, which contains the sources for rpmmodule. This allows python programs to use rpmlib. However, it only works with python 1.5 This was ok for a long time since the development cycle for python was very slow. However, in the last year or so, there has already been version 1.6, 2.0 and now 2.1. The problem is that the paths /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages and /usr/include/python1.5 are hardcoded in Makefile.am These paths should be determined by a configure script. One way to determine the path for the site-package is something along the lines of: #!/usr/bin/env python import sys,string for path in sys.path: if string.find(path,"site-packages")==len(path)-13: print path print sys.executable (There might be easier ways) greetings, Marco Bosch
Red Hat ships with Python 1.5.2, all the usual adornments to the build will happen if/when we convert to Python-2.0 Meanwhile, AFAIK, the changes are very straightforward, although I have no idea whether Python-2.0 "works" as I've never looked.