[Xapian-tickets] [Xapian] #315: Avoid generating .pyc files in srcdir

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#315: Avoid generating .pyc files in srcdir
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 Reporter:  richard       |       Owner:  richard  
     Type:  defect        |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:           
Component:  Build system  |     Version:  SVN trunk
 Severity:  minor         |   Blockedby:           
 Platform:  All           |    Blocking:           
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 Currently, when the python bindings testsuite is run, .pyc files are
 generated in the xapian-bindings/python/ srcdir.  This could break
 concurrent builds sharing a srcdir using different versions of python.
 The only approach I've seen so far for fixing this is to copy the .py
 files into builddir before running them, so that the .pyc files get
 generated there.  I'm hoping I'll come up with a cleaner solution soon.

 Note that this isn't a problem if srcdir is not writable; in this
 situation, python simply doesn't store the generated bytecode.  There
 don't seem to be any options to python to tell it not to generate
 bytecode, however.

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