[ python-Bugs-1667877 ] Install fails with no error

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Bugs item #1667877, was opened at 2007-02-24 17:10
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Category: Installation
Group: None
Status: Pending
Resolution: Wont Fix
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: larry (widgeteye)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Install fails with no error

Initial Comment:
When I built python 2.5 for linux I did the normal: 
configure 
make 
make install 

Everything went fine til the "make install" part. It dies with no 
error. 
just says "install failed" after this: 

Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py 

That part built fine but the next part failed. 
So what I did being the industrious fellow that I am I did: 

make -n install > out 

Took the out file and did: 

sh out 

That installed python without failure. 

Now if I do "make install" everything works fine. 

Weird eh?

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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2007-02-26 07:21

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Can you reproduce the problem on your system? Can you give instructions on
how to reproduce it on another system? If not, I see little chance to
resolve this problem.

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Comment By: larry (widgeteye)
Date: 2007-02-26 07:11

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I think you missed the point I was trying to make. When I say "works fine"
I mean
that after I installed python using the shell script, then I could run
"make install" 
and it would complete the install using make without failure. 

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Comment By: larry (widgeteye)
Date: 2007-02-26 07:10

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I think you missed the point I was trying to make. When I say "works fine"
I mean
that after I installed python using the shell script, then I could run
"make install" 
and it would complete the install using make without failure. 

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2007-02-25 23:01

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I'm not finding it weird that the shell script completed. I doubt it
"works fine", though. Instead, some command in it failed, but the shell
doesn't abort in this case - make would abort.

Typically, when byte-compilation fails, it is because you have a file
byte-compiled that has a syntax error in it. Scroll through the entire
compileall output to see what the actual problem is.

Tentatively closing this as "won't fix".

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