Re: Can't build today's git pull

[Graham Percival]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:47:21AM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote:
> ...
> chmod 755 out/convert-ly
> /usr/src/lilypond/scripts/build/out/help2man out/convert-ly > out/convert-ly.1
> out/convert-ly:341: Warning: 'as' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6
>   File "out/convert-ly", line 341
>     except InvalidVersion as ex:
>                            ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> help2man: can't get `--help' info from out/convert-ly

Are you sure that's a build **failure**, and not just a
**warning**?  I think I remember seeing the "help2man: can't get
--help" error for years.


I know that having serious-looking warnings in the build system
isn't ideal; we've had an open bug tracker item for this for ages.

> This is with python version 2.5.5
> 
> I suggest this patch, which *should* work with both 2.6 and 2.5
> (but warning: I am *not* a python programmer).

I'm not a python programmer either, but git must (and has been)
compile with python 2.4.5.  (unless anybody updates the package in
GUB)

2.13.13 definitely compiled with 2.4.5, and I can't remember any
changes to convert-ly since then.

Cheers,
- Graham