On 06/11/2013 18:15, John Ladasky wrote:
I am trying to help a student of mine install Python 3 on his MacBook Pro. The
installation succeeds. However, upon opening the Python interpreter, he can only execute
one Python command successfully. On the second command, the interpreter crashes, giving
the error "Segmentation fault: 11".
I have installed Python 3 on Linux and on Windows before, but I have no prior
experience with Macs. I know that OSX is Unix-like, but I'm sure that there
are significant differences between the Linux that I normally use and OSX.
My student's computer is configured as follows: MacBook Pro, 2.5 GHz Intel Core
i5, 4 GB RAM 1600 MHz DDR3, OS X 10.9. We installed the Python 3.3.2 Mac OS X
64-bit/32-bit x86-64/i386 Installer (for Mac OS X 10.6 and later) from
http://python.org/download.
The Python interpreter reported the following when it was opened:
Python 3.3.2 : d047928ae3f6, May 13 2013, 13:52:24
GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot3) on darwin
I do not know exactly how the Mac installer works. It seemed to operate
quickly. It reported very little about what work it was actually doing. Does
it install pre-compiled binaries, or does it actually build Python locally from
source code? GCC 4.2.1 strikes me as OLD. According to
http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html, it was released in 2007! I would guess that
the segfault is occurring because the Python interpreter was compiled using an
outdated GCC.
First question: did this outdated compiler execute its work at python.org
(seems unlikely), or on my student's computer (seems more likely, though still
rather absurd)?
Follow-up questions: if I need a more current GCC for my student's Mac, how do
I obtain it? And are there any backwards-compatibility issues I might need to
worry about if I do upgrade? From my Linux experience, upgrading GCC has never
caused problems. But I want to be cautious, since this isn't my computer I'll
be playing with, but someone else's.
Thanks for any advice you may have.
http://bugs.python.org/issue18458
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