Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:16:52 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Python won't build? Message-ID: <20120405171652.1185797zcmrp0kas@secure.freebsdsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <B2D18BF5-9EEB-43E0-9679-3AA9EE3A6063@jnielsen.net> References: <7E2199A3-9E2D-44D5-B7E5-06D68A13D70B@jnielsen.net> <B2D18BF5-9EEB-43E0-9679-3AA9EE3A6063@jnielsen.net>
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Quoting John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>: > On Mar 31, 2012, at 10:21 PM, John Nielsen wrote: > >> I updated a machine yesterday from 9-STABLE to 10-CURRENT >> (r233631). Everything went smoothly with the update itself, but I >> ran in to an issue with Python when rebuilding all of my installed >> ports. Python won't build; it complains about the definition of >> LONG_BIT. I had python27 installed but python26 does the same >> thing. I ran "make delete-old" and "make delete-old-libs", no >> improvement. I even built a clean chroot environment via make >> installworld DESTDIR=..., (plus devfs and ports tree). Same problem. >> >> So.. is this the result of something in the FreeBSD source? Can >> anyone else reproduce this? What should I try next? > > So, no chorus of "me too"s. How about a "works for me"? I'm still > not sure if this is something peculiar to this machine or not and I > haven't fired up a clean virtual machine on different hardware to > verify (though I'm not far from that...). > > Some of my own follow up: > > I tried rebuilding world with sources from today, 3/9 and 2/28 and > got the same result, so if it's a regression on the FreeBSD end it's > been there a while (and seemingly not related to the i386/amd64/x86 > header cleanup, which led me to pick those revisions). I also tried > setting tweaking newvers.sh to say 9.9-CURRENT and rebuilt world > with no improvement, so if it's autotools or something else versus > two-digit FreeBSD version problem it's something subtle. I'm still mystified but I'm no longer having an issue. I rebuilt world from today's sources and lo and behold, Python builds again. If anyone knows what might have changed I'd still love to know, but otherwise I guess I'll move on. JN
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