[issue6645] multiprocessing build fails on AIX - /dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found

Jesse Noller added the comment: Closing per Sridhar -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue6645] multiprocessing build fails on AIX - /dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found

Sridhar Ratnakumar added the comment: No, this is not an issue for me on Python 3.2 and AIX 5.1. -- versions: -Python 2.7, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue6645] multiprocessing build fails on AIX - /dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found

Jesse Noller added the comment: Sridhar can you confirm if this is still a problem on 3.2? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-l

[issue6645] multiprocessing build fails on AIX - /dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found

Sridhar Ratnakumar added the comment: Looks like this has been fixed, at least on Python trunk (2.7). -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue6645] multiprocessing build fails on AIX - /dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found

Sridhar Ratnakumar added the comment: This also breaks pydoc on AIX (Python 2.6.5). help> modules pydoc Here is a list of matching modules. Enter any module name to get more help. Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/home/qatest/APy/lib/python2.6/site.py", line

[issue6645] multiprocessing build fails on AIX - /dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found

David Narayan added the comment: This is a patch that I have used on AIX. The idea for this patch came from uuid.py. This patch was created against Python 2.6.4. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +davidnarayan Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15445/multiprocessing-urandom-fallback.patch

[issue6645] multiprocessing build fails on AIX - /dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found

Sridhar Ratnakumar added the comment: I suppose multiprocessing invokes `os.random` somewhere. And os.random fails on AIX for obvious reasons: >>> os.urandom(10) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/tmp/srid/ActivePythonEE-2.6.2.3-aix-powerpc64/i/lib/python2.6/ os

[issue6645] multiprocessing build fails on AIX - /dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found

Jesse Noller added the comment: Without access to an AIX machine, and even with it (I'm not an AIX guy by any stretch) it's going to be virtually impossible for me to fix this. A patch would be appreciated. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue6645] multiprocessing build fails on AIX - /dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found

Changes by Antoine Pitrou : -- assignee: -> jnoller nosy: +jnoller priority: -> normal stage: -> needs patch versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker __

[issue6645] multiprocessing build fails on AIX - /dev/urandom (or equivalent) not found

New submission from Sridhar Ratnakumar : ./Modules/ld_so_aix cc_r -qlanglvl=ansi -bI:Modules/python.exp build/ temp.aix-5.1-2.6/home/apy/rrun/build/activ epython-DEV/build/py2_6_2-aix-powerpc-apyee26-rrun/python/Modules/ _multiprocessing/multiprocessing.o build/temp .aix-5.1-2.6/home/apy/rrun/bui