Bug 394143 – dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r4 doesn't install under kernel ver. Linux 3.x

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Clemmitt M. Sigler 2011-12-09 12:28:58 UTC]

Hi,

I stumbled upon this problem when trying to solve an problem emerging an unrelated package.  Under Linux 3.x (in my case, specifically, Linux 3.0.9), dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r4 fails to install.

The problem is that "the PLATDIR source directory" (see the toplevel Makefile in the ${S} directory) doesn't exist.  As a first try, I'm assuming that copying the contents of Lib/plat-linux2 to a new directory named Lib/plat-linux3 may fix the problem.

OK, I've patched python-2.5.4-r4.ebuild to create a new directory ${S}/Lib/plat-linux3 whose contents are identical to ${S}/Lib/plat-linux2.  This gets dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r4 to install properly under Linux 3.x.  I'll attach the patch next.

HTH.

Clemmitt

[Comment 1 Clemmitt M. Sigler 2011-12-09 12:33:08 UTC]

Created attachment 295285 [details, diff]
Patch to python-2.5.4-r4.ebuild to install without error under Linux 3.x

[Comment 2 Clemmitt M. Sigler 2011-12-09 12:37:56 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Under Linux 3.x (in my case, specifically, Linux 3.0.9),
> dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r4 fails to install.

Note to devs: If Python 2.5.x is decided to be obsolete under Linux 3.x, please close this bug as WONTFIX.  TIA.

Clemmitt

[Comment 3 Mike Gilbert 2011-12-14 23:06:02 UTC]

I copied the workaround we are using for python 2.6. Regardless of what upstream officially supports, I think we should try to keep it going for now.