[Python-Dev] FW: regarding the Python Developer posting...

[Dan Wolfe]

>>[about the big switch in unicodectype.c]
>
>[Tim: use the current CVS tree instead... code's been replace...]

duh! gotta read them archives before seeing following up on an request... 
can't trust the hyper-active Python development team with a code 
freeze.... <wink>

I'm happy to report that it now compiles correctly without a 
-traditional-cpp flag.

Unfortuantely, test_re.py now seg faults.... which is caused by 
test_sre.py... in particular the following:

src/Lib/test/test_sre.py

if verbose:
    print 'Test engine limitations'

# Try nasty case that overflows the straightforward recursive
# implementation of repeated groups.
#test(r"""sre.match(r'(x)*', 50000*'x').span()""",
#   (0, 50000), RuntimeError)
#test(r"""sre.match(r'(x)*y', 50000*'x'+'y').span()""",
#     (0, 50001), RuntimeError)
#test(r"""sre.match(r'(x)*?y', 50000*'x'+'y').span()""",
#     (0, 50001), RuntimeError)


test_unicodedata fails... same endian problem as SGI...
test_format fails... looks like a problem with the underlying C code.

Here's the config instructions for Mac OS X Public Beta:

Building Python 2.0b1 + CVS
9/26/2000
Dan Wolfe

./configure -with-threads -with-dyld -with-suffix=.exe

change in src/config.h:

/* Define if you have POSIX threads */
#define _POSIX_THREADS 1

to 

/* #define _POSIX_THREADS 1 */

change in src/Makefile

# Compiler options passed to subordinate makes
OPT=		-g -O2 -OPT:Olimit=0

to

OPT=		-g -O2

comment out the following in src/Lib/test/test_sre.py

if verbose:
    print 'Test engine limitations'

# Try nasty case that overflows the straightforward recursive
# implementation of repeated groups.
#test(r"""sre.match(r'(x)*', 50000*'x').span()""",
#   (0, 50000), RuntimeError)
#test(r"""sre.match(r'(x)*y', 50000*'x'+'y').span()""",
#     (0, 50001), RuntimeError)
#test(r"""sre.match(r'(x)*?y', 50000*'x'+'y').span()""",
#     (0, 50001), RuntimeError)


After install, manually go into /usr/local/bin strip the .exe off the 
installed files.


- Dan