[Fedora-packaging] Python Packaging Hints

[Alan Milligan]

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Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

>Hmmm... Yes; rhpl's Makefiles seem to make some rather problematic
>assumptions.  What other packages do you know have similarly fragile
>upstream build scripts?

Since we're not accepting python-2.4, I've not downloaded very much of
the FC4 stack to discover exactly what's still broken.  In this case, I
think I was curious to see if
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=135657 and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=135657 had been
released as we need a proper extended url basic http authentication
syntax to allow up2date to connect to our servers.  Again, these patches
were submitted almost a year ago, and we still have to maintain our own
forks :(

>>make PYTHON=python%{pythonversion} PYTHONINCLUDE=%{pythoninclude}
>>LIBDIR=/lib

>Why the LIBDIR?  That would seems to break things for x86_64 with no
>apparent gain.

Dunno - there was obviously something screwed with the link-edit step.
I'm a little surpised that /lib is not on the default link-library path
in the first place ...

Alan


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