> I read the developer wiki page( > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Stage1DevelopmentGuide) and there is > a broken link to buildrequires and some assumptions not made for a newbie > and so I'm stuck trying to figure out how to compile anaconda. Hooray, people are reading the stuff we put up on the wiki. > My intent is > to test a code change that I intend to submit as a patch for a feature > request. So far I've set CVSROOT to 'CVSROOT=: > pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/local/CVS' and checked out the > anaconda module. Then, before I changed anything, I attempted to compile > with './py-compile *.py'. But this results in several python syntax errors > which are unexpected since I didn't change anything yet. Most likely I am > doing something wrong. My system's version of python is: Python 2.3.5 (#2, > Oct 16 2006, 19:19:48) You want to work on a feature in the python portion of anaconda? Then that's stage 2, not stage 1 (also called the loader). Basically, all the C stuff in loader2/ is stage1 and all the python stuff in the base source directory is stage2. You don't need to compile anything. I've never used the py-compile script before for anaconda development. Now if you want to build the package, you will need to have all the BuildRequires components installed first. But if you're just testing python changes, there's no compiling required. We also have a stage2 development guide at a very similar URL to the one you've already read. - Chris
