[Python-Dev] Bad python 2.5 build on OSX 10.8 mountain lion (original) (raw)

Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Tue Oct 2 09:47:59 CEST 2012

In article <20121002073135.GA26567 at sleipnir.bytereef.org>, Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:

Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote: > > Forgot the link... > > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7885 > > > > On Monday, October 1, 2012, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > > > As discussed here, the python 2.5 binary distributed by Apple on > > > mountain > > > lion is broken. Could someone file an official complaint? This is > > > really > > > bad... > > I've filed a bug against 10.8 python2.5. The 10.8 versions of Apple's > pythons are compile with clang and we did see some sign extension issues > with ctypes. The 10.7 version of Apple's python2.5 is compiled with > llvm-gcc and handles 2**31 correctly. Yes, this looks like http://bugs.python.org/issue11149 .

Ah, right, thanks. I've updated the Apple issue accordingly.

-- Ned Deily, nad at acm.org

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