python

[Jakub Piotr Cłapa]

Michal Chruszcz wrote:
> It seems like on Monday 14 of February 2005 20:50, Elan Ruusamäe typed:
> 
>>hi
>>
>>i don't know why there's need to package both pyc and pyo,
>>but i made macro that will hardlink them if they are identical.
>>the identical state is detected with md5sum
> 
> The reason is simple: if python program is run with the -O (optimization) 
> switch it will include .pyo files, otherwise .pyc, as the .pyo files are 
> made by compilation using the very same -O switch. I'm definetely for 
> including those macros to our rpm. However, I would create a macro which 
> does all these things and put it to all pythonish specs.
> 
> BTW: I'm playing with the LFS in our python for ca. month, unfortunately, I 
> haven't managed to make it working. I tried many combinations of flags 
> mentioned at http://python.org/doc/current/lib/posix-large-files.html but 
> despite the fact they're applied during compilation time of python binary 
> it still doesn't work. Could Anybody [tm] have a look at this issue?

Doesn't our cpio (and tar) also have this problem?

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Regards,
Jakub Piotr Cłapa