John Nagle wrote: > On 8/20/2012 2:50 PM, Emile van Sebille wrote: >> On 8/20/2012 1:55 PM Walter Hurry said... >>> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:19:23 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote: >>> >>>> Package dependencies. If the OP intends to install a package that >>>> doesn't support other than 2.6, you install 2.6. >>> >>> It would be a pretty poor third party package which specified Python 2.6 >>> exactly, rather than (say) "Python 2.6 or later, but not Python 3" > > After a thread of clueless replies, it's clear that nobody > responding actually read the build log. Here's the problem:
There are a lot of clueless statements on websites around the world. I'll just quote the one significant comment on the lysium.de page: """ There's actually no need to apply your patch to setup.py. Python complains about not being able to build those modules, but it will still build and install just fine without them. #6 Alexander Fairley on 2009-01-19 01:43 """ which is unfortunately burried under an avalanche of "satisfied customer" replies. Alexander, you're my hero ;) > > Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules: > bsddb185 > dl > imageop > sunaudiodev > > What's wrong is that the Python 2.6 build script is looking for > some antiquated packages that aren't in a current RHEL. Those > need to be turned off. > > This is a known problem (see > http://pythonstarter.blogspot.com/2010/08/bsddb185-sunaudiodev-python-26- ubuntu.html) > but, unfortunately, the site with the patch for it > (http://www.lysium.de/sw/python2.6-disable-old-modules.patch) > is no longer in existence. > > But someone archived it on Google Code, at > > http://code.google.com/p/google-earth-enterprise- compliance/source/browse/trunk/googleclient/geo/earth_enterprise/src/third_party/python/python2.6- disable-old-modules.patch > > so if you apply that patch to the setup.py file for Python 2.6, that > ought to help. That patch prevents setup.py from adding a few names of rarely needed/available modules to the list of missing modules. That's snakeoil. OP: You can safely ignore the error message, the patch has no real-world effect. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
