This patch ensures that the pydoc_data package gets installed. This is needed

to make it possible to use pydoc to get access to the language reference.

That is, without this patch the folllowing won't work:

   >>> help('if')

diff --git a/Makefile.pre.in b/Makefile.pre.in
index 8f91f88485b46945a12a33d0edc206a67ada3c19..f6844f94860ced9da481d078680df232983c1c50 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.pre.in
+++ b/Makefile.pre.in
@@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ LIBSUBDIRS= lib-tk site-packages test test/output test/data \
                distutils distutils/command distutils/tests $(XMLLIBSUBDIRS) \
                multiprocessing multiprocessing/dummy \
                lib-old \
-               curses $(MACHDEPS)
+               curses pydoc_data $(MACHDEPS)
 libinstall:    build_all $(srcdir)/Lib/$(PLATDIR)
        @for i in $(SCRIPTDIR) $(LIBDEST); \
        do \