[Python-Dev] python/dist/src/Objects complexobject.c,2.42,2.43

[Martin v. Loewis]

> What's the plan for removing this stuff again when UnixWare fixes
> their bugs?

There is no plan for that at the moment. Please have a look at

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=305470&func=detail&aid=450710

for prior discussion on the matter; the submitter has considered
coming up with an autoconf bug test for the problem, but hasn't
followed up with that - testing for the system apparently turned out
to be the easier route.

One possible approach is that UnixWare releases are regularly tested
for the presence of the bug. That would be simplified if the nature of
the problem was documented somewhere, that also hasn't happened. To
retest, it might be easiest to disable the SCO_ macros, and re-run the
test suite; test_math will fail if the bug is still present. Once the
version of UnixWare is identified that first fixed the bugs, it
hopefully is possible to check the value of __SCO_VERSION__ to tell
apart the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Regards,
Martin