[issue4028] Problem compiling the multiprocessing module on sunos5

[JB Robertson]

New submission from JB Robertson <jr244 at kent.ac.uk>:

Hello,

there's some issues compiling the multiprocessing module on the SunOS I
have here, where CMSG_LEN, CMSG_ALIGN, CMSG_SPACE and sem_timedwait are
absent.

$ uname -av
SunOS xxxxxxx 5.9 Generic_117171-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440

it looks like simply defining the first three macros like this works:
#ifndef CMSG_SPACE
#   define CMSG_SPACE(len) (CMSG_ALIGN(sizeof(struct
cmsghdr))+CMSG_ALIGN(len))
#endif

#ifndef CMSG_ALIGN
#   ifdef __sun__
#       define CMSG_ALIGN _CMSG_DATA_ALIGN
#   else
#       define CMSG_ALIGN(len) (((len)+sizeof(long)-1) & ~(sizeof(long)-1))
#   endif
#endif

#ifndef CMSG_LEN
#   define CMSG_LEN(len) (CMSG_ALIGN(sizeof(struct cmsghdr))+(len))
#endif

(from http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2006-May/024400.html )

and setting HAVE_SEM_TIMEDWAIT=0 in setup.py does the trick for the last
one.  Presumably, adding something like 

    elif platform.startswith('sunos5'):
        macros = dict(
                HAVE_SEM_OPEN=1,
                HAVE_SEM_TIMEDWAIT=0,
                HAVE_FD_TRANSFER=1
                )
        libraries = ['rt']

in setup.py should work, but I have no other SunOS machines to test this on.

thanks

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components: Extension Modules
messages: 74248
nosy: jr244
severity: normal
status: open
title: Problem compiling the multiprocessing module on sunos5
type: compile error
versions: Python 2.6

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