Bugs item #1669349, was opened at 2007-02-26 19:22
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Category: Installation
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Matthias S. Benkmann (mbenkmann)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: make install fails if no previous Python installation
Initial Comment:
When installing Python 2.5 on a completely Python-less system 'make install'
failed. The error that caused the failure was
Compiling /usr/lib/python2.5/test/test_multibytecodec.py ...
Sorry: UnicodeError: ("\\N escapes not supported (can't load unicodedata
module)",)
[snip]
Compiling /usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py ...
make: *** [libinstall] Error 1
'find -name unicodedata.so' showed me that the library did not exist in the
build tree. However, after a 'make -i install' to force make to continue
despite the error, unicodedata.so was there. So apparently the library is not
built until a later stage of make install. And indeed, subsequent 'make
install' calls without -i were successful.
It is important to note that if you have a previous Python installation (at
least of the same version), 'make install' will go through, because it'll load
the library from there. So if you want to reproduce the issue you will have to
install from a freshly unpacked tarball on a system with no Python installation.
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