[Build-common-hackers] Bug#439915: Bug#439915: Warning about Python policy breaks build process

[Jussi Hakala]

Jussi Hakala wrote:
> I did a little further digging and it seems that this won't happen with 
> etch's version of make (3.81). However, if you use older version of make 
> (3.80), the build will crash with the error above.

Just to clarify things a bit more, the example about the problem I 
provided crashes with both versions of make.

When including python-distutils.mk, it crashes with the old version of 
make only. Why this happens, I don't know.