[Python-Dev] Re: ATTENTION! Releasing Python 2.2.2 in a few weeks (original) (raw)

Mats Wichmann mats@laplaza.org
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:43:41 -0600

Thanks. In addition, I was hoping to hear about your timeline (when do you expect to release PyTie?) and a hint on the 3rd party packages you're thinking of adding. Also a list of target platforms for which PyTie must absolutely work. (Note e.g. that we just discovered a problem with Solaris and the latest version of binutils (2.13), which seems to be used by the latest GCC version (3.2 IIRC) but is also separately downloadable. The bug is in binutils 2.13. Is this combination (Solaris + binutils 2.13) a target platform? If so, you might want to use a different approach than we plan to do for Python 2.3 and 2.2.2 (which is merely to bail out if a certain test dumps core during configuration).

gcc 3.2 requires binutils 2.12 or better; it doesn't have a specific requirement on 2.13. However the sunfreeware bundle may bump bintuils to 2.13 (I haven't checked what's going on there for a long time). Sadly, the 2.13 release message indicates the purpose is (only) to support a new platform and says nothing about clever little modifications behind the scenes, like changing default linker options so that relocation tables are built differently (sigh).