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| author | gdt <gdt@pkgsrc.org> | 2010-07-24 00:57:17 +0000 |
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| committer | gdt <gdt@pkgsrc.org> | 2010-07-24 00:57:17 +0000 |
| commit | 6ccfc33dc905ee3848de495b612788ada9025394 (patch) | |
| tree | cbc776cd7b67a759b206cfd054d95ccbbc47eb6b /lang/python | |
| parent | 376f1bc03f37b42a5db480d1d5903d67a3fbd6cf (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-6ccfc33dc905ee3848de495b612788ada9025394.tar.gz | |
Explain that PY_NO_EGG probably exists because distutils in Python 2.4
and earlier did not create egg files.
Diffstat (limited to 'lang/python')
| -rw-r--r-- | lang/python/extension.mk | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lang/python/extension.mk b/lang/python/extension.mk index 5929fbf54e3..766df7ac91b 100644 --- a/lang/python/extension.mk +++ b/lang/python/extension.mk @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $NetBSD: extension.mk,v 1.27 2010/07/23 22:56:40 gdt Exp $ +# $NetBSD: extension.mk,v 1.28 2010/07/24 00:57:17 gdt Exp $ .include "../../lang/python/pyversion.mk" @@ -36,10 +36,12 @@ do-install: ${PYTHONBIN} ${PYSETUP} ${PYSETUPARGS} "install" ${_PYSETUPINSTALLARGS}) .endif -# XXX This suppress the installation of the egg-info file (and +# PY_NO_EGG suppress the installation of the egg info file (and # therefore its inclusion in the package). Python practice is be to # use these files to let 'require' verify that python distributions -# are present. +# are present, and therefore the default value of PY_NO_EGG=yes causes +# pkgsrc not to conform to python norms. The reason for this behavior +# appears to be that creating egg info files was new in Python 2.5. PY_NO_EGG?= yes .if !empty(PY_NO_EGG:M[yY][eE][sS]) # see python25/patches/patch-av |