Re: problems installing python 2.2.2 on solaris 8

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 08:51:21PM +0100, Laura Creighton wrote:
> 
> Do we even test the installing, or just quit when things compile
> and pass their tests?

If we want to test make install we need a "template" of files to look
for on the host. That template is unique for that host, since each
host basically has its own set of skipped/failed modules. Somewhere in
the distant future we may have such high quality on the source that
virtually all modules pass compile/test, but that is some time away
yet.

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> 
> From: "John Bernhardt" <[email protected]>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
> Subject: problems installing python 2.2.2 on solaris 8
> Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com
> 
> I'm trying to get Python 2.2.2 installed on a solaris 8 SPARC system
> and have run into a problem that I need some help resolving.  On this
> system, I can successfully compile Python and the compiled version
> passes all of the tests run by 'make test'.  However, when I do a
> make install, there are quite a few modules that do not get copied
> into /usr/local/lib/python2.2 including the socket and time modules;
> more I'm sure, but my scripts fail on loading smtplib because those
> two modules are not installed.

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