[Stackless] Distutils test Crazyness

[Ariel Ben Yehuda]

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Richard Tew <richard.m.tew at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Ariel Ben Yehuda <ariel.bys at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > test_distutils
> >
> >
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpython2.6
> >
> >
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >
> >
> > test test_distutils failed -- errors occurred; run in verbose mode for
> > details
> > ...
> > # # I don't think you need rocket science to understand why
> test_distutils
> > failed
> > # # --- it tried to link to libpython2.6, which wasn't yet installed.
>
> Hi Ariel,
>
> The short answer is that this is correct behaviour.
>
> The long answer is that in order to determine if an error or failure
> in Stackless is actually an error or failure IN Stackless, you need to
> do the same operations with standard Python.  If the problems
> observed, happen both in standard Python and in Stackless Python, then
> Stackless is working fine and standard Python is not.
>
> I do not recall if I ran the unit tests when I checked in the last
> merge from standard Python, but I believe I would have.  However, I
> just ran the unit tests against a fresh export of both standard and
> Stackless Python, and they both exhibited the same failure in
> distutils for me.
>
> We need to document this somewhere.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard.
>
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- Ariel Ben-Yehuda
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