Re: [PATCH] python-{native}-2.6.5: Fix parallel build.

[Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>]

Paul Menzel wrote:
> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 12:51:03 +0200
> 
> Randomly the build failed for me with the following error message.
> 
>     libpython2.6.so: undefined reference to `_PyParser_Grammar'
> 
> The applied patch in [5] tried to fix this problem, but it turns out that this was due to a possible race and already known in OpenOffice too [3].
> 
> R. David Murray (dmalcolm) <dmalcolm@fedoraproject.org> fixed this in Fedora [1] and I applied his patch.
> 
> I reported this issue upstream [4] and this will only be fixed in Python 2.7, so we have to keep this patch for Python 2.6.
> 
> [1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=python.git;a=commitdiff;h=b95f6cc2ca6a009f97436c6aa16cfd70547353d9
> [2] http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=114866
> [3] http://doc.services.openoffice.org/wiki/RedTinderboxStatusInEIS
> [4] http://bugs.python.org/issue10013
> [5] http://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/1899/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>

Aside from what Khem said, thanks for tracking this one down!

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation