[Python-Dev] multiprocessing source not "Unix clean" (original) (raw)

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Fri Jun 13 18:21:15 CEST 2008

In trying to solve a build problem with the multiprocessing code on Solaris10 I visited multiprocessing.c in XEmacs and noticed the files all appear to have Windows line endings. Should those maybe be stripped to conform to the other Python source?

FWIW, it appears that Solaris doesn't define SEM_VALUE_MAX but does define _SEM_VALUE_MAX in sys/params.h.

.../Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.c: In function 'init_multiprocessing':
.../Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.c:253: error: 'SEM_VALUE_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
.../Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.c:253: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
.../Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.c:253: error: for each function it appears in.)

On Windows the author simple #defines SEM_VALUE_MAX to be LONG_MAX. I used a little cpp action to define it:

#ifndef SEM_VALUE_MAX
#  ifdef _SEM_VALUE_MAX
#    define SEM_VALUE_MAX _SEM_VALUE_MAX
#  else
#    define SEM_VALUE_MAX INT_MAX
#  endif
#endif

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