Ulrich Berning schrieb: > > If porting libffi to AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris... (especially using > vendor compilers) would be an easy job, I'm sure it would have been done > already. If more and more essential packages depend on ctypes, we should > make a clear statement, that Python isn't supported any longer on > platform/compiler combinations where libffi/ctypes doesn't build. This > would give me arguments to drop support of our software on those platforms.
Ulrich, if *you* have access to these platforms and want to help a good start which hopefully wouldn't take too much time would be to compile the current libffi release [1], run the test suite, and report the results. Compile with gcc, for a start, and note that the testsuite requires dejagnu (the PyObjC folks have written a dejagnu replacement in Python for testing libffi, but I haven't tried that). [1] http://sourceware.org/libffi/ -- Thanks, 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
