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Re: [Xen-devel] pygrug breaks build with python2.2

To: Kurt Garloff <kurt@xxxxxxxxxx>, katzj@xxxxxxxxxx, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] pygrug breaks build with python2.2
From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:57:38 +0200
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On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 06:51:21PM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 05:03:50PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> > pygrub's setup.py relies on distutils.UnixCCompiler.has_function(),
> > which does not exist with python2.2, causing the following build
> > error:
> [...]
> > The following patch gets it to build, but is pretty ugly. A proper fix
> > would be to do the check for ext2fs_open2() in a way that is backward
> > compatible with python2.2.
> 
> Why not just disable building pygrub if your python is that ancient?

If this is the only thing required for it to work with 2.2, it would
be a shame not to support it. If it's entirely dependant on 2.4,
disabling it is fine. FWIW, the top-level README gives python2.2 as a
prerequisite and everything else appears to build fine with it.

Cheers,
Muli
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/


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