Building python-svn from source

[The Pythonista]

First of all, I apologize if this would be more appropriate for python-
dev, but I don't normally subscribe to that list, and felt it would also
be of general use, so....

I'm having problems building the latest Python 2.6 and 3.0 from
subversion, and I'm not sure how to resolve the problem. In each case,
configure executes without problem, but, when I execute 'make', I get
this error (the same one for both 2.6 and 3.0):

../Parser/asdl_c.py -h ./Include ./Parser/Python.asdl
Must specify exactly one output file
make: *** [Include/Python-ast.h] Error 1

Am I doing something wrong? If not, how do I work around this error?

Thanks!

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./Parser/asdl_c.py -h ./Include ./Parser/Python.asdl

Must specify exactly one output file
make: *** [Include/Python-ast.h] Error 1

Am I doing something wrong? If not, how do I work around this error?

For some reason, the getopt module in your host's python cannot process
the command line options to asdl_c.py correctly.

What Python version do you have installed in PATH?

In any case, just touch Include/Python-ast.h and Python/Python-ast.c
before building, to work around this issue.

Regards,
Martin

[The Pythonista]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:04:41 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

For some reason, the getopt module in your host's python cannot process
the command line options to asdl_c.py correctly.

What Python version do you have installed in PATH?

Martin,

Thank you so much! In fact, I did have a python executable on my PATH in
~/bin that was screwing things up. After I moved it (thus leaving the
system default python as the only python executable on my PATH), the
build process went smoothly (except for not being able to find a few
libraries for some C extensions, but I think I can fix that).

I now have working python2.6 and python3.0 executables to play with,
thanks to you. :-)
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