Re: lang/python25: `make install' fails

[Gueven Bay <gueven.bay%googlemail.com@localhost>]

2009/6/29 Jukka Salmi <j+nbsd%2009.salmi.ch@localhost>:
> Jukka Salmi --> pkgsrc-users (2009-06-21 18:18:52 +0200):
>> Hello,
>> building lang/python25 from both HEAD pkgsrc and 2009Q1 fails to
>> install:
>> $ cd pkgsrc/lang/python25 && make
>> [...]
>> $ make package
>> [...]
>> Compiling /usr/pkg/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py ...
>> *** Error code 1
>> [...]
>>
>> Any hints about how to fix this?
>
> I'm seeing this problem on a NetBSD/i386 -current (5.99.12) system, but
> can't reproduce it on NetBSD/i386 5.0 and 4.0 systems.  So it's probably
> not pkgsrc's fault...
> Regards, Jukka


On my Linux system pkgsrc (2009Q1) fails to install python25 because
pkgsrc tries to build gcc-2.95.3nb7 - somewhere python25 gets a dependency
to gcc-2.95 -. And because you cannot compile such an old gcc on a actual system
python25's build fails.
GCC_REQD does not change anything :-(

regards, Gueven