[issue27849] that is so great!

2016-08-24 Thread David Kirkby
New submission from David Kirkby: Hey, Look what I've just found on the web! It's so amazing, check it out <http://guxustatri.scalrentals.com/aednig> Yours, david.kirkby -- messages: 273550 nosy: drkirkby priority: normal severity: normal status: open title:

[issue1759169] clean up Solaris port and allow C99 extension modules

2011-04-29 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Is there any progress on this? I see it is marked as Status: closed Resolution: accepted Stage: patch review That apparently means: ''There is a patch, but it needs reviewing or is in the process of being reviewed. This can be done by any

[issue11667] 'configure' script overrides users setting of CFLAGS

2011-03-28 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Yes, I think this could do with being documented, as it is not obvious. Generally one would expect CFLAGS to do this, and not OPT. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue11

[issue6006] ffi.c compile failures on AIX 5.3 with xlc

2011-03-25 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: I've just downloaded libffi-3.0.9 (the latest) and it builds with no problems on my AIX 5.3 system. Is there any chance of the version of libffi in Python being updated? -- nosy: +drkirkby ___ Python tracker

[issue11667] 'configure' script overrides users setting of CFLAGS

2011-03-25 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Thank you. That solved it, so you can close this. -- status: pending -> open ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issu

[issue11667] 'configure' script overrides users setting of CFLAGS

2011-03-24 Thread David Kirkby
New submission from David Kirkby : I'm trying to build a version of Python *without* debugging information. The reason for me wanting to do this is because there is a bug which is either in gcc or AIX , that prevents recently patched versions of AIX building code where there are s

[issue8852] _socket fails to build on OpenSolaris x64

2010-06-28 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Thank you Mark for confirming what I found. I understand your reservations about the code if you don't know of its correctness. I must admit I don't myself. I don't have a clue how this _socket module should be built. But it is clear to me th

[issue9069] test_float failure on Solaris

2010-06-26 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: I'm glad you can reproduce it! I can understand you wanting to close it in this case. I've no problem with that. To me at least, it does not seem anywhere near as serious as the other problem. I will try it on Linux though. I have access to

[issue9069] test_float failure on Solaris

2010-06-26 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Sorry, I missed out the comment there. This is failing for me, in boht 32 and 64-bit builds with Python-2.7rc2 -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue9

[issue9069] test_float failure on Solaris

2010-06-26 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: test_float test test_float failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/export/home/drkirkby/Python-2.7rc2/Lib/test/test_float.py", line 1297, in test_roundtrip self.identical(-x, roundtrip(-x)) File "/export/home/drkirkby/Python-

[issue8852] _socket fails to build on OpenSolaris x64

2010-06-26 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Sorry, I put that note on the wrong issue! ignore it. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue8852> ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue8852] _socket fails to build on OpenSolaris x64

2010-06-26 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: I think I spoke too soon. I just downloaded the 2.7.rc2. Using both 32 and 64-bit builds, with the only patch being that I attached to issue8852 some months back, the problem occurs again. test_float test test_float failed -- Traceback (most recent call

[issue9069] test_float failure on Solaris

2010-06-26 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Sorry, I seem to have wasted a lot of your time here. Python was built from a script which applied some patches - including that one that allows _socket to build. Without that (which is not commit to python and I'm told it might not be done this year)

[issue9069] test_float failure on Solaris

2010-06-26 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Here's the header file that gets created -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17776/pyconfig.h ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue9069] test_float failure on Solaris

2010-06-26 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Here's a build done the same way as you. This gives the same result as you here. But an attempt to run the test suite fails because of _socket. I need to patch that in order that I can run the test suite. See http://bugs.python.org/issu

[issue9069] test_float failure on Solaris

2010-06-26 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Hi, __EXTENSIONS__ is defined to 1. Give me an hour, and I'll attach a log. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue9069] test_float failure on Solaris

2010-06-25 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Hi, I had hoped to devote more time to this, but have been able to. I will do at the weekend. I would add I was building 64-bit, so adding the compiler flag -m64 on 'hawk' at least some of the time. Depending on your hardware, assuming you have

[issue8852] _socket fails to build on OpenSolaris x64

2010-06-24 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Hi Martin, I appreciate your point. But do you know if anyone has it on their TODO list? If not, is there anything I could do about it? I don't have commit access to the Python source code, but if there is anything else I can do I'd like to.

[issue9069] test_float failure on Solaris

2010-06-24 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Just to clarify the hostnames and hardware used, in case you look at the results here or the links to the Sage maths bug tracker and are not sure what is what. Note some are Solaris and some are OpenSolaris. Some have SPARC and some have Intel processors

[issue9069] test_float failure on Solaris

2010-06-24 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Hi Mark, Since 'copysign' is in the maths library, I would not expect the link phase to fail. Solaris does not ship with different maths libraries for C99 (one just links to libm). However, I would not be surprised if the behavior was ill defi

[issue9069] test_float failure on Solaris

2010-06-24 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Using the compiler option -std=c99 allows this test to pass. Perhaps adding the macro AC_PROG_CC_C99 to autoconf to add the right compiler option might be a solution. I know Solaris headers are often quite strict, and will not define something in a header

[issue9069] test_float failure on Solaris

2010-06-24 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: I'll take a look at this in an hour or two. I'll restrict the testing to the Xeon machine, as it is a zillion times quicker than the old SPARCs. What comes to my mind, is that perhaps 'copysign' is only defined in C99. Solaris header fil

[issue9069] test_float failure on Solaris

2010-06-24 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Just to clarify something, in case you notice something does not look quite right. The link I provided to the build failure on the SPARC machine http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9297 was a Sun Blade 1000. It is *not* the same machine from which I

[issue9069] test_float failure on Solaris

2010-06-24 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Hi Mark, Here's the info on the two systems - first the SPARC system, secondly the Intel Xeon system. 1) SPARC * Sun Blade 2000, with 2 x UltraSPARC III+ 1200 MHZ processors * 8 GB RAM * Solaris 10 update 8 10/09 release (This is the latest relea

[issue8265] test_float fails on ARM Linux EABI with soft floating point

2010-06-24 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: I'm seeing this failure on both Solaris 10 (SPARC processor) in 32-bit mode and OpenSolaris 06/2009 (Intel Xeon) in 64-bit mode using Python 2.6.4. So it is not just an ARM Linux issue. See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9297

[issue8852] _socket fails to build on OpenSolaris x64

2010-06-23 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Is there anything I can do to get someone to do something about it? I would have thought with a patch, it would not be hard for someone to fix. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue8

[issue8852] _socket fails to build on OpenSolaris x64

2010-06-23 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Has anyone done anything about fixing this issue? The patch I attached appears to allow _socket to build on OpenSolaris and when I run the test suite, there is no failure of _socket. I've just downloaded the latest source code for the 3.1.2, 2.6.5 and P

[issue8852] _socket fails to build on OpenSolaris x64

2010-05-29 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: I'd made a mistake when manually applying your patch, although my mistake made no practical difference. I'm attaching a corrected patch, which has all the changes needed to get this to build on OpenSolaris. It basically only checks for things before

[issue8852] _socket fails to build on OpenSolaris x64

2010-05-29 Thread David Kirkby
Changes by David Kirkby : Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file17497/socketmodule.c.patch ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue8852> ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue8852] _socket fails to build on OpenSolaris x64

2010-05-29 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: I forget to say I had attached the patch 'socketmodule.c.patch' which allows _socket to build. (I know you can see that if you look, but I thought it useful to write it). I do have some other modules not building on OpenSolaris (_curses, _cu

[issue8852] _socket fails to build on OpenSolaris x64

2010-05-29 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Hi, thank you for the patch. I hope you can keep Python building the same modules on Solaris as Linux, as that would be a real shame if it did not. This module is used in the Sage maths software. I had some difficulty applying your patch using the '

[issue8852] _socket fails to build on OpenSolaris x64

2010-05-29 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Two points I should have stated. 1) http://www.lotuseyes.de/blog/error-installing-plone-on-opensolaris-using-the-unified-installer has a discussion about this issue. It was related to someone trying to install "Plone" but the problem is a failure

[issue8852] _socket fails to build on OpenSolaris x64

2010-05-29 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: I was obviously looking for the wrong file. ./pyconfig.h shows: /* Define to 1 if you have the header file. */ #define HAVE_NETPACKET_PACKET_H 1 the file does indeed exist drkir...@hawk:~$ find /usr/include -name packet.h /usr/include/netpacket/packet.h

[issue8852] _socket fails to build on OpenSolaris x64

2010-05-29 Thread David Kirkby
New submission from David Kirkby : Using Python 2.6.5, the module _socket is failing to build on OpenSolaris. The problem can be worked around with a hack, but I've not verified if the hack actually results in working code - but at least it compiles. See below. The problem seems to be

[issue7836] Add /usr/sfw/lib to OpenSSL search path for Solaris.

2010-02-02 Thread David Kirkby
New submission from David Kirkby : In the top level setup.py there is a list of directories searched for the OpenSSL libraries. ssl_libs = find_library_file(self.compiler, 'ssl',lib_dirs, ['/us

[issue1222585] C++ compilation support for distutils

2009-09-28 Thread David Kirkby
David Kirkby added the comment: Just to add, I'd much appreciate if this bug could be squashed. I see there is a patch, but it is against a 3-year old version, and is not a small patch. Hence I am reluctant to try to apply it myself. It is causing a problem in the Sage project, as I tri