new waf vs PYTHONDIR

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:44:46 -0700
Hal Murray <halmurray at sonic.net> wrote:

> > I tried to bisect the git.  No luck.  The issue depends on which
> > Python I am running.  
> 
> commit e899c2ffd4243e933150f2349874e4e462657c54
> Author: James Browning <jamesb.fe80 at gmail.com>
> Date:   Thu Mar 13 02:06:11 2025 -0700
> 
>     Use waf 2.1.4, revise, and drop Py2.6 builds.

That commit does nothing for me, either way.

> Which python works the old way?

I wish it was that simple.

On Gentoo stable, Python 3.12 woth git master:

Checking for python module 'gps' (ver >= num(3, 18))            : 3.25.1~dev 
  PYSHEBANG                     :  /usr/bin/env python 
  PYTHONDIR                     :  /usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages 
  PYTHONARCHDIR                 :  /usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages 
'configure' finished successfully (3.371s)

On Gentoo unstable, Python 3.13t woth git master:

Checking for python module 'gps' (ver >= num(3, 18))            : 3.25.1~dev 
  PYSHEBANG                     :  /usr/bin/env python 
  PYTHONDIR                     :  /usr/local/lib/python3.13t/site-packages 
  PYTHONARCHDIR                 :  /usr/local/lib/python3.13t/site-packages 
'configure' finished successfully (2.790s)

The odd thing.  That 3.13t was failing, but I pulled a new git clone
and it worked fine.

Maybe something stuck in the waf or python caches?

I tried several Gentoo stable and un-stable and could not reproduce the
issue.

> We now have two wafs.
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 murray murray      9 Mar 13 02:24 waf -> waf-2.1.4
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 murray murray 108317 Mar 13 02:24 waf-2.1.4
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 murray murray 105631 Mar 13 02:24 waf-2.0.25

Odd.  Me too.

> old one if you have an old python.  Or something like that.

Dark magix.

I do not see any Python binaries, so PYTHONARCHDIR is, and should be, unused:

backup ! # ls -l /usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ntp
total 252
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   395 Mar 18 14:34 __init__.py
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Mar 18 14:34 __pycache__
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24987 Mar 18 14:34 agentx.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49192 Mar 18 14:34 agentx_packet.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4792 Mar 18 14:34 control.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4271 Mar 18 14:34 magic.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5186 Mar 18 14:34 ntpc.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73087 Mar 18 14:34 packet.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3893 Mar 18 14:34 poly.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  9171 Mar 18 14:34 statfiles.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52609 Mar 18 14:34 util.py


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