[pypy-dev] Problem building C Extension

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

Not to comment on issue, but it's actually pretty good that
zope.interface C speedups don't work. They won't be speedups in pypy
case even if they did work.

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Kevin Gill <kevin at movieextras.ie> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to PyPy.
>
> I built pypy using...
>
> $ python translate.py --opt=jit targetpypystandalone.py
>
> When I try to build eggs with C extensions it doesn't work. I am using pip in a virtualenv. The build
> uses the wrong compiler "cc" instead of "gcc" and does not use CFLAGS.
>
> For example:
>
> $ pip -v install zope.interface==3.6.1
>
> shows this output
>
> cc -I/home/kevin/pypp/env/include -c src/zope/interface/_zope_interface_coptimizations.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.5/src/zope/interface/_zope_interface_coptimizations.o
> src/zope/interface/_zope_interface_coptimizations.c: In function ‘verifying_changed’:
> src/zope/interface/_zope_interface_coptimizations.c:1349: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
> cc -shared build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.5/src/zope/interface/_zope_interface_coptimizations.o -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.5/zope/interface/_zope_interface_coptimizations.pypy-14.so
> /usr/bin/ld: build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.5/src/zope/interface/_zope_interface_coptimizations.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.5/src/zope/interface/_zope_interface_coptimizations.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> I did some digging through the source. I found that the compiler configuration is normally loaded
> via distutils/sysconfig.py, but that module was effectively disabled in pypy. I cannot override
> using environment variables for example because the customisation function is as follows:
>
> def customize_compiler(options):
>     """Dummy method to let some easy_install packages that have
>     optional C speedup components.
>     """
>     pass
>
> I see from the mailing list that people are compiling C extensions. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks
>
> Kevin
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Version of pypy that I am using.
>
> $ svn info
> Path: .
> URL: http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/trunk
> Repository Root: http://codespeak.net/svn
> Repository UUID: fd0d7bf2-dfb6-0310-8d31-b7ecfe96aada
> Revision: 79796
> Node Kind: directory
> Schedule: normal
> Last Changed Author: afa
> Last Changed Rev: 79794
> Last Changed Date: 2010-12-03 21:52:49 +0000 (Fri, 03 Dec 2010)
>
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