Heads-up: python 2.5 on its way

[Christopher Stone]

On 12/8/06, Christopher Stone <chris.stone at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/7/06, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 16:17 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > > This is just a heads up that I'm in the progress of getting python 2.5
> > > staged for the development tree.  At this point, I'm doing the build on
> > > the side and trying to get a good chunk of the Core packages rebuilt
> > > against it before pushing to the development tree itself.  I'm still
> > > hoping to be able to do the actual move over either later today or
> > > tomorrow (depending on how fast the Core build system decides to be)
> >
> > As warned, these packages are built and are now moving over so should be
> > showing up in tomorrow's development push.
> >
> > I've rebuilt the majority of Core which showed up with a dep on
> > python[1], but I'm sure I missed something in my query.  Also, there's a
> > healthy number of packages in Extras which will be hit by this as well.
> >
> > If anyone runs into any problems or has any questions, let me know.  And
> > if you need a python25 package to play with while on FC6, my slightly
> > older packages are still available at
> > http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/python/fc6/.  The changes from that
> > build are largely clean-ups and shouldn't impact any basic porting
> > effort.
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
> > [1] A few packages failed to rebuild for reasons unrelated to the new
> > version of python and I didn't dig into all of them to fix.
>
> One of my python packages is refusing to build on fc7 with the following error:
>
> error: invalid Python installation: unable to open
> /usr/include/python2.5/pyconfig-32.h (No such file or directory)
>
> All I'm doing is:
> %{__python} setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root %{buildroot}
>
> And the setup.py script is some tiny file which doesn't look like it
> has any checks for this.  Anyone have any idea what could be going on
> here?
>


hrm, adding python-devel to the BR was needed to fix this.  I was
under the impressions that as of FC5 one no longer needed to do this?
My package built fine with FC5 and FC6 without having python-devel in
the BR, why is it needed now?