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On 08-10-2009 09:07:45 +0200, Markus Duft wrote: |
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> since some time, libffi is removed from python. either of one things |
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> would have been cool: |
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it would've been cool if this wasn't actually, since 80% of arches got |
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broken with this "change" IMO, which was of course totally undocumented |
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and hidden away in zillions of whitespace changes and other pleasant |
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things like wrapping comments to 192 chars instead of 72 or 80. |
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> a) inserting the rm -fr _after_ patching, so that patches don't break. |
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> i don't even ask you to check whether patches still apply ... |
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the rm -fr comes from gentoo-x86, and indeed I don't have time any more |
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to check, even though I better do for python, but I blindly relied on |
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gx86 that internal libffi isn't necessary... well, it at least revealed |
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that python's beautiful build system hardcodes paths and places all |
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over, so it's totally broken on Darwin/OSX at least for the moment |
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still. Since there is "support" code for Solaris too, I expect it to be |
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broken too. |
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> b) revbumping, so that i at least see the problem immediately, not |
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> at the _next_ revbump, which is prolly unrelated. |
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what do you think *I* feel, when I find out that if I recompile python |
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because I neec ucs2 that it is totally broken because libffi is |
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gone/misdetected/overridden by a "smart" setup.py script??!?!? |
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> at first i was really puzzeled as to why my older prefixes all break on |
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> python updates (as opposed to more current ones, which have the python |
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> from before the rm -fr was inserted). |
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same here, get the idea why python-3.1 is masked in prefix (as opposed |
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to gx86) now? I'm *very* unhappy about what's happening to python, |
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its wrapper and the mentality around it, and I can assure you, you are |
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not the only one that nearly explodes of irritation... I've stessed my |
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opinion strongly towards the maintainer, but I can't do more than that, |
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unfortunately. There has been way to much broken already with this |
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experimental crap. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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