.. Ross Patterson's Blog imported post, created by `$ ./bin/rfc822-to-post` on Mar 15, 2021.

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   :description: I ran into a problem  when trying to build Python from source after upgrading SVN.
   :keywords: Plone, Zope

.. post:: Mar 12, 2012
   :tags: Plone, Zope
   :author: Ross Patterson
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Building Python with Subversion 1.7
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    I ran into a problem  when trying to build Python from source after upgrading SVN.

In case anyone else runs into this error::

    gcc -pthread -c -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes  -I. -IInclude -I./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

What's `happening here <http://bugs.python.org/issue6094>`_ is that
`Python <http://www.python.org/>`_ is using `svnversion` in it's build
process but the 1.7 version has different output than previous
versions.  I ran into this problem with Python 2.5 but not with Python
2.4.  I'm not sure about Python 2.6+ because I just downgraded
`subversion <http://subversion.tigris.org/>`_ temporarily before I
built the other versions of Python.

.. update:: Mar 12, 2012

   Imported from Plone on Mar 15, 2021.  The date for this update is the last
   modified date in Plone.