Re: Another Python namespace pollution (was: r147958 - in /trunk/libstdc++-v3: ChangeLog Mak...)

Richard Guenther <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.java.devel,gmane.comp.gcc.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Gary Benson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Gerald,
>
> Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>> I noticed that coming from the Java side of things we also have two
>> files that are installed in common namespace:
>>
>>   share/python/aotcompile.py
>>   share/python/classfile.py
>>
>> These have been added by the following patch from all can tell:
>>
>> 2008-06-30  Joshua Sumali  <[email protected]>
>>         Andrew Haley  <[email protected]>
>>
>>         * configure.ac (java-home): new AC_ARG_ENABLE.
>>         (aot-compile-rpm): Likewise.
>>         :
>>         * contrib/aot-compile.in: New file.
>>         * contrib/aotcompile.py.in: Likewise.
>>         * contrib/aot-compile-rpm.in: Likewise.
>>         * contrib/classfile.py: Likewise.
>>         * contrib/rebuild-gcj-db.in: Likewise.
>>
>> This is also http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47484 .
>
> I'm on the hook to fix this, but it's been a while since I worked on
> this stuff so I'm a little out of touch with GCC.  Can you tell me
> what you mean by "common namespace", and what the alternative should
> be?

The files should reside in a directory that is private to gcc or at least
mangled with the gcc version it comes from.  Otherwise multiple
parallel gcc installations conflict.

Richard.

> Thanks,
> Gary
>
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