Re: Can't build today's git pull

[Peter Chubb]

>>>>> "Graham" == Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

Graham> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Peter Chubb
Graham> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> /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
>> 
Graham> Are you sure that's a build **failure**, and not just a
Graham> **warning**?  I think I remember seeing the "help2man: can't
Graham> get --help" error for years.
>> 
>> It's a build failure -- make just stops at that point.

Graham> Interesting!  If I build with GUB, the installer builds (no
Graham> compile error), but trying to run convert-ly from that
Graham> installer fails:

Graham> address@hidden:~/tmp$ convert-ly -e lily.ly File
Graham> "/home/gperciva/.usr/lilypond/usr/bin/convert-ly", line 341
Graham> except InvalidVersion as ex: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax



Graham> I won't pretend to know how python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.0 and 3.1
Graham> all treat this syntax, so could somebody who knows python take
Graham> a look at the current convert-ly and make it work on 2.4.5 and
Graham> up?

It should work on 2.4, I just didn't test it because I don;t happen to
have that version opf Python installed.

BTW, at Linux.conf.au opnme of the python developers was talking about
a toolset for testing code in a variety of python versions.
Unfortunately, I cam e in right at the end of his talk, and it doesn't
seem to appear in the schedule.

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