Jean Brouwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: For ctypes to compile with the SUN's C compiler, there is quite a bit of tricky asm code which needs to be ported (and tested). Most of that is in libffi and that library is only supported with gcc, it seems. But that is not mentioned explicitly anywhere either, see <http://sources.redhat.com/libffi/>.
In any case, the _ctypes module does not compile with SUN C in the current situation. And it is not obvious why. Making that clear with some message that ctypes (rather _ctypes) requires gcc would help and might be sufficient. However, leaving the _ctypes module out altogether would be better. Just like other modules which have environment-specific dependencies, for example _tkinter. I'll take a look how that is handled. /Jean __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2552> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
