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

Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Sat Oct 6 01:45:11 CEST 2012

In article <nad-B4E67A.00475902102012 at news.gmane.org>, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:

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? > > 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.

Update: the bug I filed has been closed as a duplicate of #11932488 which apparently at the moment is still open. No other information is available.

-- Ned Deily, nad at acm.org

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