[Zope] Re: Building Zope 2.7.2 on OS/2

[John Poltorak]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:10:02AM -0700, David Swift wrote:
> "G:\USR\BIN\PYTHON.EXE" "G:/ux2bs/workdir/Zope-2.7.2-0/setup.py"  install \
>    --prefix="/usr/local/Zope" 
> --build-base="G:/ux2bs/workdir/Zope-2.7.2-0/build-base/python-2.3" 
> --build-lib="G:/ux2bs/workdir/Zope-2.7.2-0/build-base/python-2.3/build-lib" 
> --build-scripts="G:/ux2bs/workdir/Zope-2.7.2-0/build-base/python-2.3/build-scripts" 
> --build-temp="G:/ux2bs/workdir/Zope-2.7.2-0/build-base/python-2.3/build-temp" 
> invalid command name ''
> make: *** [install] Error 1
> 
> 
> I had the same problem, got around it by removing the makefile variable that keeps all the '--build*' parameters and putting them in manually at that step.  I was then able to get the build to complete in the ux2bs environment; however, the build does not seem to startup for me.
> 
> I think one of the '--build*' vars has an extra newline in it that is triggering this error, but since I had not tried any other Zope version on OS/2, I gave up at that point.


After further inspection, I found the problem - I had ommitted to set 
MAKESHELL=/bin/sh in the environment. Now Zope 2.7.2 builds OK on OS/2.

-- 
John