[Python-Dev] python 2 for building python 3

[Benjamin Peterson]

2010/12/4 Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>>> Er, normally you don't need *any* Python installed to build Python (be
>>> it 3.x or 2.x).
>>
>> Are you sure about this?  I remember needing an existing Python to
>> building Python 2.7 on a new python-less install of FreeBSD a couple
>> of months ago.  But maybe that was just an issue with timestamps on
>> files.  I'll see if I can reproduce.
>
> With a fresh checkout of the release27-maint branch on an Ubuntu
> 64-bit VM, with /usr/bin/python renamed to /usr/bin/python_not_here, a
> './configure && make' fails with:
>
> [...]
> checking for socklen_t... yes
> checking for build directories... done
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile.pre
> config.status: creating Modules/Setup.config
> config.status: creating Misc/python.pc
> config.status: creating Modules/ld_so_aix
> config.status: creating pyconfig.h
> creating Modules/Setup
> creating Modules/Setup.local
> creating Makefile
> ./Parser/asdl_c.py -h ./Include ./Parser/Python.asdl
> /usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory
> make: *** [Include/Python-ast.h] Error 127
>
> I think this is the same problem that I saw on the FreeBSD VM.

You have to touch Include/Python-ast.h and Python/Python-ast.c. We do
this for release tarballs.



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Regards,
Benjamin