[issue11102] configure doesn't find "major()" on HP-UX v11.31

Oren Held added the comment: Any tip on how to make this patch get committed? :) -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list maili

[issue11102] configure doesn't find "major()" on HP-UX v11.31

R. David Murray added the comment: Well, one way might be to set up and maintain an HP/UX buildbot :) Other than that, just keep bugging us periodically until someone gets around to doing it. -- nosy: +r.david.murray stage: -> commit review type: -> compile error __

[issue11102] configure doesn't find "major()" on HP-UX v11.31

New submission from Oren Held : The effect eventually is that on HP-UX v3 there are no os.major() and os.minor() functions. I tried to dig deeper to find out what's wrong, and it seems that 'configure' script fails on 'major' check and thus disables the 'major' feature: 'configure' finds well

[issue11102] configure doesn't find "major()" on HP-UX v11.31

Oren Held added the comment: Attaching a patch I've made for fixing the problem in HP-UX, simply by #including sys/types.h on the configure test.. 1. I'm not sure it'll be good for all platforms; maybe we need more 'configure' magic here to make it #include on this configure test only when

[issue11102] configure doesn't find "major()" on HP-UX v11.31

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: AFAICT, including sys/types.h by default in the test should be fine. It's a standard header file (atleast for Posixish systems), so it should always be present, and including it shouldn't cause harm even if it's not needed. -- nosy: +loewis

[issue11102] configure doesn't find "major()" on HP-UX v11.31

Oren Held added the comment: Just a small note: after this patch applied, building Python 2.7.1 was successful on Linux (SLES 11, RHEL 5, Ubuntu 10.10), Solaris 10, and HP-UX 11 v3. (I didn't get to build Python on other platforms) -- ___ Python tr