"setup.py build --allow-python-fallback" doesn't work; need build_ext
Bug #545637 reported by
Martin Pool
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Bazaar |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In bzr trunk,
python setup.py build --allow-
complains that the option is unknown, as does install, but build_ext does work.
I think I'm the one who initially reported this on the IRC channel.
This bug is a problem for me because of bug #331342. Since 32-bit binaries run out of memory when migrating my big SVN repos, i tried to build 64-bit ones from source. That failed because of missing zlib, so I tried to use --allow- python- fallback, but THAT failed due to this issue. If only this option worked, I could probably build my own 64-bit native binaries and work around the memory limitations that are preventing me from migrating my SVN repos.