Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> Sorry, I mistakenly said "without issue" and then copied the issues >> below. I meant to say "not without issues." _multiprocessing does *not* >> build on Solaris 8. > > Hmm. They are all warnings - did you omit the actual error message? > > The lack of CMSG_LEN seems to suggest that control messages are not > supported on Solaris 8, or that you need to include an additional > header file to get them.
Sorry, I was trying to keep the amount of noise to a minimum, but those particular implicit function declarations ultimately lead to linking errors for lack of those same symbols: *** WARNING: renaming "_multiprocessing" since importing it failed: ld.so.1: python: fatal: relocation error: file build/lib.solaris-2.8-sun4u-2.7/_multiprocessing.so: symbol CMSG_SPACE: referenced symbol not found >> Is Solaris 8 really a supported platform? If so, I can investigate the >> changes he suggested. > > The concept of "supported platform" doesn't really exist - there is no > way to obtain "support". If it works, it works, if it doesn't, it > doesn't. So if you want it fixed, provide a patch - else we can drop > the issue. I have no personal interest in the matter. I just happened to have access to an older Solaris just for this sort of testing. If someone has a patch, then I would be glad to test it, but otherwise, I am not going to invest any time on this. The patch given by the OP is clearly undesirable since status quo works just fine for a modern Solaris install. > I think multiprocessing is misguided in hard-coding these settings > into setup.py. As we can see, the necessary features are available > on some versions of Solaris, but not on others. It would be better > if autoconf tests were written, and the entire configuration removed > from setup.py. I agree, but I am not familiar enough with the set of features that multiprocessing is implicitly depending on and how to test for them on all of the platforms. -- Scott Dial sc...@scottdial.com scod...@cs.indiana.edu _______________________________________________ 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
