[New-bugs-announce] [issue4303] [2.5 regression] ctypes fails to build on arm-linux-gnu

[Matthias Klose]

New submission from Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org>:

ctypes fails to build on arm-linux-gnu, see
http://python.org/dev/buildbot/2.5/ARM Linux 2.5/builds/3/step-compile/0

gcc -pthread -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -g -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I.
-I/home/pybot/buildarea-arm/2.5.klose-linux-arm/build/./Include
-Ibuild/temp.linux-armv5tel-2.5/libffi/include
-Ibuild/temp.linux-armv5tel-2.5/libffi
-I/home/pybot/buildarea-arm/2.5.klose-linux-arm/build/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src
-I. -IInclude -I./Include -I/usr/local/include
-I/home/pybot/buildarea-arm/2.5.klose-linux-arm/build/Include
-I/home/pybot/buildarea-arm/2.5.klose-linux-arm/build -c
/home/pybot/buildarea-arm/2.5.klose-linux-arm/build/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c
-o
build/temp.linux-armv5tel-2.5/home/pybot/buildarea-arm/2.5.klose-linux-arm/build/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.o
In file included from
/home/pybot/buildarea-arm/2.5.klose-linux-arm/build/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c:127:
/home/pybot/buildarea-arm/2.5.klose-linux-arm/build/Modules/_ctypes/ctypes.h:72:
error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'ffi_closure'
/home/pybot/buildarea-arm/2.5.klose-linux-arm/build/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c:
In function 'CFuncPtr_new':
/home/pybot/buildarea-arm/2.5.klose-linux-arm/build/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c:2955:
error: 'CThunkObject' has no member named 'pcl'

this is a regression compared to 2.5.2. Not seen on 2.6 or 3.0. Please
consider a fix before 2.5.3 is released.

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messages: 75779
nosy: doko
priority: release blocker
severity: normal
status: open
title: [2.5 regression] ctypes fails to build on arm-linux-gnu
versions: Python 2.5.3

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