Hi Bill, On Feb 2, 2006, at 11:53 PM, Bill Northcott wrote:
> On 03/02/2006, at 6:32 PM, Kevin Ollivier wrote: >>> I found that _POSIX_C_SOURCES is defined in pyconfig.h in Python 2.4 >>> but not 2.3. So this problem will only arise using Python 2.4 on >>> Tiger. Python 2.4 on Panther, or 2.3 on Tiger would be OK. It >>> seems >>> both Apple and the Python people decided to be IEEE Stds 1003.1-2001 >>> compliant, but it has caused a problem in wxWidgets/wxPython. >> >> Thanks for all your help tracking this down! I'm seeing the >> problem and have made some changes to the wx configure script that >> fix it on OS X. But I need to check if the fix doesn't break >> anything on other platforms first. We should have this in the >> 2.6.3 release (due in a couple weeks), and fixed in HEAD hopefully >> in the next couple days. (I had been doing my 2.4 builds on >> Panther, which is why I had not noticed this before!) > > Hi Kevin > > I thought about this some more and concluded that messing with the > autoconf stuff might break other extensions that worked now. > > After reading more, particularly http://www.opengroup.org/ > onlinepubs/009695399/functions/xsh_chap02_02.html , I settled on a > change in wx/string.h. It seems to me that if the host is IEEE Std > 1003.1-2001 compliant then the HAVE_STRCASECMP..... macros should > be ignored and strings.h included. > > So I added more alternative conditions to wx/string.h:46 thus: > #if defined(HAVE_STRCASECMP_IN_STRINGS_H) || _POSIX_C_SOURCE == > 200112L || _XOPEN_SOURCE == 600 > > This definitely works on MacOS X 10.4 and I don't see how it can > break on other systems. Out of curiosity, was there a problem with just doing defined (_POSIX_C_SOURCE) || defined(_XOPEN_SOURCE) tests? Are these always guaranteed to be set to those values? > Cheers > Bill Northcott > > PS I still have the issue from my other posting which Adriano > posted in September. Could you give me a thread to look up so that I can follow up? Thanks, Kevin _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
