[Python-Dev] Build errors under RH9 (original) (raw)

Gary Herron gherron@islandtraining.com
Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:39:16 -0700

I just upgraded my development system to RedHat 9, and now I get two compilation errors on the Python CVS tree. I'll have time to examine them tonight, but I thought I'd get a notice out now on the chance that someone else has already resolved them.

  1. Compilation of _tkinter comes up with #error "unsupported Tcl configuration"

    The failing test was changed just yesterday, but the previous version gives the same results: In revision 1.155: #if TCL_UTF_MAX != 3 && !(defined(Py_UNICODE_WIDE) && TCL_UTF_MAX==6) and in revision 1.154: #if TCL_UTF_MAX != 3

And yet, if I remove the test, I get a (very minimally tested) working version of Tkinter, so the test should probably be modified to pass in whatever circumstances RH 9 presents.

  1. Compilation of _ssl.c fails to find, through a chain of includes, file krb5.h. Then things rapidly go to hell.

    Defining #define OPENSSL_NO_KRB5 gets through the compilation, but I don't yet know how to test it.

    (How to I get past the "Use of the `network' resource not enabled" result of running test_socket_ssl.py?)

Gary Herron