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From: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [ptxdist] python: don't create
 '$(PTXCONF_SYSROOT_CROSS)/bin/python' link
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Hi,

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 05:36:21PM -0600, George McCollister wrote:
> Why did you decide to remove this link? This breaks several of my
> package rules that use the waf build system. Specifically talloc and
> tevent. Is there a case when you don't want to use CROSS_PYTHON? If
> you did this to solve a specific problem let me know because I was
> having some python related problems until I applied the attached
> patch. Maybe you ran into this as well.

The problem is, that this link hides the system python
($PTXDIST_TOPDIR}/bin/python). So packages that need python for building
sometimes get the wrong python (if python is built first).
Also, I don't see why it should break you packages. There is still a python
in PATH.

Michael

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