Re: problem installing python25 on Debian lenny

[Russell McManus <russell_mcmanus%yahoo.com@localhost>]

Wes Chow <wes%senortoad.com@localhost> writes:

>>>>> Is there any way to swap those?
>>
>> http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=pkgsrc-users&a=2008-12&t=9268135
>>
>> Might be of interest.
>
> Tried it out, and it does fix the rpath in objdump. Though, I'm still
> getting an error when running "bmake install" on a system with an
> existing python2.5. If I create a binary package on a system without
> python, then install that on a system with python, it seems to behave
> as expected.

Glad to be of some service.  I really wish that there was some way to
get this included into pkgsrc directly.

64 bit Linux really should be a well supported pkgsrc platform, but many
packages fail to build without the hack mentioned above.

-russ