"MvL" == Martin v Loewis
writes:
MvL> I don't know how Barry found that the tests fail, but must MvL> likely, one of the expect calls failed, resulting in a MvL> TestFailed exception - which would have been clearly visible.
"BAW" == Barry A Warsaw
writes:
BAW> Okay, it's a build problem. For whatever reason, the -D BAW> flags set in configure weren't getting passed to gcc during BAW> the make. If I add that explicitly, everything works. So BAW> Py2.1.2 is fine with Martin's patch, which should be BAW> committed to the maint branch. BAW> If I come up with a better recipe for posix-large-files I'll BAW> submit it as a doc-fix. I think the following is a better suggestion: % CC='gcc -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' ./configure CC is propagated to the Makefile so that just "make" is necessary, but OPT and CFLAGS is not. (Although, I seem to vaguely remember that OPT /used/ to propagate -- I must be mis-remebering.) -Barry