I'd like to view the Python documentation as info files, but I'm having some
trouble with the python command that builds the texinfo file. When I execute
"make python-lib.info" I get:
python partparse.py -o @lib.texi `whichlibs`
python: illegal option -- o
usage: python [-d] [-i] [-u ] [-v] [-c cmd | file | -] [arg] ...
Options and arguments (and corresponding environment variables):
The FAQ has the following Q&A:
The python interpreter complains about options passed to a script (after
the script name).
A. You are probably linking with GNU getopt, e.g. through
-liberty. Don't. (If you are using this because you link with
-lreadline, use the readline distributed with Python instead.)
I ran configure with --with-readline=/home/skip/python-1.0.2/readline which
caused LIBS in Python/Makefile to be set to:
LIBS= -L/home/skip/src/python-1.0.2/readline -lreadline -ltermcap
I couldn't find any references to -liberty or getopt in the Makefile, nor
are there any references to -liberty or getopt on the link line generated by
make, so I sort of think I'm doing things right, but obviously I'm missing
something.
(I can't see what the different version of readline buys me vis a vis
getopt. There are no references to getopt in the readline source.)
-- Skip Montanaro (montanaro@ausable.crd.ge.com) Now working for Automatrix. Details at 11.