Description of problem: Package python-devel in Fedora 16 ships with a broken symlink that breaks all python detections relying on "/usr/bin/python-config" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): python-devel-2.7.3-1.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: Install python-devel, and run "/usr/bin/python-config --includes" Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install python-devel 2. Run "/usr/bin/python-config --includes" 3. Run "ls -al /usr/bin/python*" Actual results: $ usr/bin/python-config --includes bash: /usr/bin/python-config: No such file or directory $ ls -al /usr/bin/python* lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 May 23 10:09 python -> python2 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 May 23 10:09 python2 -> python2.7 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 4896 Apr 13 22:17 python2.7 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1785 Apr 13 22:17 python2.7-config lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 14 May 23 10:11 python-config -> python2-config Expected results: $ /usr/bin/python-config --includes -I/usr/include/python2.7 -I/usr/include/python2.7 $ ls -al /usr/bin/python* lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 May 9 13:33 python -> python2 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 May 9 13:33 python2 -> python2.7 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 6184 Apr 30 23:18 python2.7 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1785 Apr 30 23:18 python2.7-config lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 May 23 10:16 python2-config -> python2.7-config lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 14 May 23 10:16 python-config -> python2-config Additional info: This only happens in Fedora 16; Fedora 15, 17 and rawhide are ok. You can see through koji builds that Fedora 16 misses the "python2-config -> python2.7-config" symlink.
It breaks wireshark build on F16: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=4095828&name=build.log
It breaks also bacula on F16 (ok on epel 5/6 and f15/17/18): http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=4095676&name=build.log&offset=-1500 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=4095677&name=build.log&offset=-1500
I noticed this while building a custom kernel. It disable python support when building kernel tools.
This is a duplicate of bug 813836; looks like the fix never made it to F16. Sorry about that. Building python-2.7.3-3.fc16 for f16-candidate Task info: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4112248 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 813836 ***