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Re: Failure in t6021 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

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MAMark Allen <mrallen1@yahoo.com>
Date
Dec 7, 2005, 18:12 UTC
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--- Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Are you using git RPM, or building by hand?
> If the latter, "grep -A2 python INSTALL" may be helpful.

Definitely. Thanks for the pointer -- I rebuilt my git installation with the correct flag, but there's a bootstrapping problem with the test -- and I'm not a good enough python programmer to fix it very well.

So, basically the problem is that the subprocess.py module is in the compat directory, and by default (I think) the git-merge-recursive being tested is only looking in $HOME/git/git.git where it finds and loads gitMergeCommon.py, but gitMergeCommon.py is not looking in $HOME/git/git.git/compat which is where subprocess.py lives.

So I hacked in to git-merge-recursive this line at the top of the file
sys.path.append('''/home/mallen/git/git.git/compat''')
at the very top and now the test passes.

So maybe this points out a problem in the Makefile or in the substitution the Makefile is using to put in @@GIT_PYTHON_PATH@@

I'm not sure I've clearly explained the issue, and like I said, I'm kind of a Python baby, so I'm not sure what the best way to fix this problem might be.

Thanks,
--Mark
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  5. Make sure we use compat/subprocess.py with Python 2.3 while running tests.Junio C Hamano, Dec 8, 2005
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