[Python-Dev] Python 2.6: OverflowError: signed integer is greater than maximum (original) (raw)

Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse jasper at humppa.nl
Tue Nov 10 00:05:27 CET 2009

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 07:15:20PM +0000, Mark Dickinson wrote:

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse <jasper at humppa.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > while trying to get Python 2.6 working on OpenBSD/sgi (64-bit port) > I ran into the following during build: > > OverflowError: signed integer is greater than maximum > > I ran the command that triggered this by hand with -v added:

[traceback snipped] > Does anyone know what's going on here, or how to fix it? > I can provide a full build and configure log if needed. No idea. Please could you file a report at http://bugs.python.org? The build and configure log would be useful. If you can diagnose the source of the failure yourself any further that would be more useful; I suspect that the core developers will have a hard time figuring the problem out without this. I may well be barking up the wrong tree here, but as a first guess it looks as though something in the PySysInit function in Python/sysmodule.c is (directly or indirectly) causing the OverflowError to be raised. I'd try adding a bunch of printf calls to that function that print the value of PyErrOccurred(), to see where (if at all) the Python exception is being set. (I suggest building with the --with-pydebug configure option for this.) Mark Hi,

for the record, I filed the bug as: http://bugs.python.org/issue7296 In the meantime I'll try digging into this issue.

Cheers, Jasper

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