Gerald Combs wrote:
> Jeff Morriss wrote:
>> My Solaris builds now fail with:
>>
>>> Making register.c with python
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "../../tools/make-dissector-reg.py", line 98, in ?
>>>     cur_mtime = os.fstat(file.fileno()).st_mtime
>>> AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'st_mtime'
>> with Python 2.1.1 .
>>
>> I guess it's time to upgrade.  No big deal for me, but should it be
>> mentioned somewhere (before the next release)?
>>
>> Or better yet, tested for in, say, 'configure'?
>>
>> (Sorry, I'm very short on time at the moment but I wanted to mention it 
>> before I forget.)
> 
> I've checked in a change (in r21459) that should fix the immediate mtime
> issue.  The Python section Developer's Guide says "version 2.2 and above
> should be working fine."  Should we enforce Python >= 2.2 in autoconf
> and/or win32-setup.sh?

I can confirm the workaround works.

It seems reasonable to me to force a more modern Python--I imagine 2.1 
is quite ancient by now and it's not like upgrading should be terribly 
painful (unlike the Gtk1->Gtk2 switch).

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