[Python-Dev] ctypes and powerpc

2006-11-24 Thread Thomas Heller
I'd like to ask for help with an issue which I do not know how to solve. Please see this bug http://python.org/sf/1563807 "ctypes built with GCC on AIX 5.3 fails with ld ffi error" Apparently this is a powerpc machine, ctypes builds but cannot be imported because of undefined symbols like 'ffi_ca

Re: [Python-Dev] ctypes and powerpc

2006-11-24 Thread Thomas Heller
Thomas Heller schrieb: > I'd like to ask for help with an issue which I do not know > how to solve. > > Please see this bug http://python.org/sf/1563807 > "ctypes built with GCC on AIX 5.3 fails with ld ffi error" > > Apparently this is a powerpc machine, ctypes builds but cannot be imported > be

Re: [Python-Dev] ctypes and powerpc

2006-11-24 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Thomas Heller schrieb: > What should we do now? Should the conditional be changed to > > #if defined(__ppc__) || defined(_POWER) > This would be the right test, if you want to test for "power-pc like". POWER and PowerPC are different processor architectures, IBM pSeries machines (now System p)

Re: [Python-Dev] ctypes and powerpc

2006-11-24 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On Friday, November 24, 2006, at 08:21PM, "Thomas Heller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd like to ask for help with an issue which I do not know >how to solve. > >Please see this bug http://python.org/sf/1563807 >"ctypes built with GCC on AIX 5.3 fails with ld ffi error" > >Apparently this is a