CPython 2.4.x fails with syntax error

[astrojuanlu]

I am not able to install CPython 2.4 (I tried 2.4.1 and 2.4.6 with identical results) in Arch Linux. It seems it is using a wrong setup.py, because it contains a with block (which was introduced in 2.5).

  File "./setup.py", line 253
    with open(tmpfile) as fp:
            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
make: *** [sharedmods] Error 1

[saghul]

I see where that comes from. It's added by this patch: https://github.com/saghul/pythonz/blob/master/pythonz/patches/all/common/patch-setup.py.diff which is applied to all pythons.

If you can provide a patch for this I'll gladly take it, else it'll take me some time to get to this.

FWIW pythonbrew seems to have the appropriate patch for this: https://github.com/utahta/pythonbrew/blob/master/pythonbrew/patches/all/python24/patch-setup.py.diff maybe you can port it ;-)

[astrojuanlu]

Fair enough, seems an easy task :-) I'll do it myself tomorrow morning if you haven't done it yet. Besides I have other build issues but first I must check if they are related to my Arch setup or can be reproduced in another OS.

[saghul]

That would be awesome, thanks!