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

Neal Norwitz neal@metaslash.com
Thu, 17 Apr 2003 18:23:59 -0400

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:39:16PM -0700, Gary Herron wrote:

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 TCLUTFMAX != 3 && !(defined(PyUNICODEWIDE) && TCLUTFMAX==6) and in revision 1.154: #if TCLUTFMAX != 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.

I believe Martin von Loewis already checked in a fix for this. http://python.org/sf/719880

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

Defining #define OPENSSLNOKRB5 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 testsocketssl.py?)

I just checked in a fix for Feature Request #719429 which fixes this problem. It finds the header file. To enable resources:

    ./python -E -tt ./Lib/test/regrtest.py -u network

I have a couple of failures. I think they may have occurred before upgrading. Is anybody else seeing this?

    test_array OverflowError: unsigned short integer is less than minimum
    test_logging - (I think this is the old test sensitivity)
    test_trace - AssertionError: events did not match expectation

Neal