python2.5 has wrong value for distutils.sysconfig.get_config_var("PYTHON")

[Blair Zajac]

David Glasser wrote:
> [oops, wasn't on mailing list the first time I tried to send this]
> 
> Currently, MacPorts installs python2.4 as /opt/local/bin/python and
> Python 2.5 only as python2.5.  However, the Python 2.5 install doesn't
> know this; in its makefile (which ends up installed as
> /opt/local/lib/python2.5/config/makefile), it still believes that
> 
> PYTHON=         python$(EXE)
> 
> which means that
> 
> distutils.sysconfig.get_config_var("PYTHON")
> 
> returns "python" instead of "python2.5", which means that python
> programs that rely on this config var to be able to run python from
> the command line run the wrong version of python.
> 
> Can we fix the build process so that python 2.5 is configured with
> PYTHON=python2.5, instead of tricking it into thinking it is called
> python and just deleting python in the post-destroot?

Hi David,

Can you write a quick patch for the python2.5 Portfile to do what you're 
referring to here?

Regards,
Blair

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