[Xapian-discuss] Building RPM on RHEL4

[Richard Boulton]

Olly Betts wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 12:29:52AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
>> It looks like newer RPM generates the .pyo.  Just touching it into
>> existence doesn't seem a good plan.  I'm taking a look.
> 
> I wonder if we should always generate the .pyo in the bindings build
> system, like we do for the .pyc file.  Something like this patch
> maybe:
> 
> http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/patches/xapian-pyo.patch
> 
> Richard: What do you think?

I can't see any problem with this idea, but I've never been convinced 
that .pyo files are actually of any use (with the current level of 
optimisation, anyway).  However, if it will help RPM builds or anything, 
go ahead.

The only risk I can see is that asserts aren't checked in .pyo files, 
which could be confusing if we're trying to track down a user-reported 
error.  However, we don't have many Python asserts anyway.

(Of course, .pyc and .pyo files shouldn't be included in debian 
packages, since they'll be generated at install time.  I imagine RPM 
does something similar.)

-- 
Richard