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

To: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] pygrug breaks build with python2.2
From: Kurt Garloff <kurt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:51:21 +0200
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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?

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