Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>> Benjamin Peterson <musiccomposition@gmail.com> added the comment:
>>
>> Can you submit a patch against the trunk? There aren't going to be any
>> new features in 2.5.
>>   
>
> Would a patch against 2.6a2 be OK?
>
> I have had a lot of problems building Python on Gentoo Linux (where I 
> developed these patches) w/o using their ebuild system, so I am trying 
> to keep things simple. 

I just tried to build python 2.6a2 from svn trunk in FreeBSD 
6.3-RELEASE. I get the same error messages as I do in Gentoo Linux:

%%%
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./setup.py", line 6, in <module>
    import sys, os, imp, re, optparse
ImportError: No module named os
gmake: *** [sharedmods] Error 1
Exit 2
%%%

I have no PYTHON* variables set in my environment.

On Gentoo, when I build using the ebuild / emerge system, I don't see 
this issue, nor do I see it with FreeBSD ports. Obviously they are doing 
something which differs from the instructions in the README, and it 
makes it difficult for me to submit patches for versions of Python other 
than those supported by the packaging systems, as I am sure you can 
understand.

cheers
BMS