BUG: python24 builds without including the _locale module

[dominik@…]

It appears that python (since 2.3 in fact) builds without including the _locale module (at least perhaps other modules don't build either) which cause troubles with other ports like, for instance, Trac that doesn't run because it depends on the locale module. The build on a PPC machine doesn't miss this module, though. The error can be triggered with the following code:

[lapin]~> python
Python 2.4.3 (#1, Oct 14 2006, 19:34:10) 
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5341)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import locale
>>> locale.getpreferredencoding()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/locale.py", line 399, in getpreferredencoding
    import _locale
ImportError: No module named _locale
>>> 

[dominik@…]

It appears that the problem doesn't arise for everyone on an i386 plateform. The python build process fails on my machine on the _locale.so production and the setup.py script renames it to _locale_failed.so:

*** WARNING: renaming "_locale" since importing it failed: Failure linking new module: build/lib.darwin-8.8.1-i386-2.4/_locale.so: Symbol not found: _libintl_bindtextdomain

However libintl was installed by gettext port and looks ok.

[dominik@…]

patch of the setup.py

[dominik@…]

The provided patch fixes the flawing test in the setup.py that was missing libintl. This fixes the ticket.

[vinc17@…]

Same problem on PowerPC -> summary update.

[jann@…]

Should be fixed in r25391. Please re-open if not