Martin v. Löwis schrieb: >>> We actually have a couple of Solaris buildbots already - as I >>> understand it, the issue there isn't Solaris as such, it's being able >>> to use the Sun compiler instead of GCC to compile ctypes/libffi. >> >> Does that mean that we need access to the Sun compiler or that the Sun >> compiler has bugs which prevent ctypes from compiling? > > Neither, nor. ctypes (or, rather, libffi) has code specific to gcc > (or, rather, the GNU assembler) that makes the Sun compiler reject > it. IIRC, it chokes on the attempt to compile assembler code that > has C preprocessor macros in it (can't test it right now).
Could it be a solution to build libffi with gcc, then configure Python with '--with-system--ffi' and compile with the sun compiler, or would this introduce the dependencies on libgcc or whatever again that Ulrich wanted to avoid? Thomas _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
