Install fails with no error

[widgeteye]

BPO	1667877
Nosy	@loewis

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closed_at = <Date 2007-03-13.02:20:02.000>
created_at = <Date 2007-02-24.16:10:42.000>
labels = ['expert-installation']
title = 'Install fails with no error'
updated_at = <Date 2007-03-13.02:20:02.000>
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[widgeteye]

When I built python 2.5 for linux I did the normal:
configure
make
make install

Everything went fine til the "make install" part. It dies with no
error.
just says "install failed" after this:

Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py

That part built fine but the next part failed.
So what I did being the industrious fellow that I am I did:

make -n install > out

Took the out file and did:

sh out

That installed python without failure.

Now if I do "make install" everything works fine.

Weird eh?

[loewis]

I'm not finding it weird that the shell script completed. I doubt it "works fine", though. Instead, some command in it failed, but the shell doesn't abort in this case - make would abort.

Typically, when byte-compilation fails, it is because you have a file byte-compiled that has a syntax error in it. Scroll through the entire compileall output to see what the actual problem is.

Tentatively closing this as "won't fix".

[widgeteye]

I think you missed the point I was trying to make. When I say "works fine" I mean
that after I installed python using the shell script, then I could run "make install"
and it would complete the install using make without failure.

[widgeteye]

I think you missed the point I was trying to make. When I say "works fine" I mean
that after I installed python using the shell script, then I could run "make install"
and it would complete the install using make without failure.

[loewis]

Can you reproduce the problem on your system? Can you give instructions on how to reproduce it on another system? If not, I see little chance to resolve this problem.

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