Build of python 2.5 failed with subversion on Archlinux

[Azd325]

I'm trying to install 2.5.6 and will dont work.
Maybe has to do with this http://superuser.com/questions/564118/error-compiling-python-2-7-3-on-centos5

tim@localhost ~ % pyenv install 2.5.6
Downloading Python-2.5.6.tar...
-> http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.6/Python-2.5.6.tgz
Installing Python-2.5.6...

BUILD FAILED

Inspect or clean up the working tree at /tmp/python-build.20130422153800.5017
Results logged to /tmp/python-build.20130422153800.5017.log

Last 10 log lines:
Parser/pgen ./Grammar/Grammar ./Include/graminit.h ./Python/graminit.c
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘Include’: File exists
make: [Python/graminit.c] Error 1 (ignored)
Parser/pgen ./Grammar/Grammar ./Include/graminit.h ./Python/graminit.c
gcc -pthread -c -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I. -IInclude -I./Include -I'/home/tim/.pyenv/versions/2.5.6/include' -DPy_BUILD_CORE -o Python/compile.o Python/compile.c
gcc -pthread -c -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I. -IInclude -I./Include -I'/home/tim/.pyenv/versions/2.5.6/include' -DPy_BUILD_CORE -o Python/graminit.o Python/graminit.c
gcc -pthread -c -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I. -IInclude -I./Include -I'/home/tim/.pyenv/versions/2.5.6/include' -DPy_BUILD_CORE -o Python/symtable.o Python/symtable.c
gcc -pthread -c -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I. -IInclude -I./Include -I'/home/tim/.pyenv/versions/2.5.6/include' -DPy_BUILD_CORE -DSVNVERSION="LC_ALL=C svnversion ." -o Modules/getbuildinfo.o ./Modules/getbuildinfo.c
gcc: error: directory": No such file or directory
make: *** [Modules/getbuildinfo.o] Error 1

Do you have any ideas?

[yyuu]

What is your operating system? I can build 2.5.6 on my Debian sid box without troubles.

[Azd325]

I have an Arch Linux
2.7.4 and 2.6.6 are also working for me but the whole 2.5 row not

[Azd325]

Do you want to have my complete error log?

[yyuu]

This seems to be a problem of python build process, not a problem of pyenv.

Because the problem is not reproduced on my machine, basically, please find the cause of the trouble by yourself. I'll try to setup Arch Linux as VM, but I cannot promise you anything about this trouble.

[yyuu]

I tested building CPython 2.5.6 on latest Arch Linux (cleanly installed), and it finishes without any problems. After that, I did sudo pacman -S subversion and then try rebuilding, it fails by the same error as yours.

[Azd325]

Yep. I have subversion installed.
Is the subversion version to high?

[Azd325]

Or what can be the reason?

[yyuu]

The Python build system expects svnversion to print "exported" if the source tree is not on the Subversion repository. But recent version of Suversion prints "Unversioned directory" in place of "exported". This is the why build fails.

Just placing following script as svnversion into your $PATH will solve the build problem.

#!/bin/sh
echo exported

Other workarounds described in the post you pointed are also effective.

Again, this is not a kind of problem of pyenv.

[Azd325]

But thanks for the help