[Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 35, Issue 143

[J. Jeffrey Close]

Hi all,

Sorry for my inappropriate posting.   I just joined
the list and didn't realize the complete scope.  I
will stay on the list, I'm very interested in it from
a semantics & implementation perspective as well. 
Thanks to Brett for the heads-up.

Jeff




--- Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> Python-Dev is about Python the language and its
> development.  Questions on
> its use (and build) should be posted elsewhere (I
> would try comp.lang.python
> ).
> 
> -Brett
> 
> On 6/26/06, J. Jeffrey Close
> <jjeffreyclose at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have been trying for some time to build Python
> 2.4.x
> > from source on OS X 10.4.6.  I've found *numerous*
> > postings on various mailing lists and web pages
> > documenting the apparently well-known problems of
> > doing so.  Various problems arise either in the
> > ./configure step, with configure arguments that
> don't
> > work, or in the compile, or in my case in the link
> > step with libtool.
> >
> > The configure options I'm using are the following:
> > --enable-framework --with-pydebug --with-debug=yes
> > --prefix=/usr --with-dyld --program-suffix=.exe
> > --enable-universalsdk
> >
> > I've managed to get past configure and can compile
> > everything, but in the link I get the error
> "Undefined
> > symbols:  ___eprintf" .  This appears to have
> > something to do with dynamic library loading not
> > properly pulling in libgcc.  I've tried with -lgcc
> in
> > the LD options, but that produces a configure
> error
> > "cannot compute sizeof...".
> >
> > If I remove "--enable-framework" the complete
> build
> > works, but unfortunately that is the one critical
> > element that I need.
> >
> > The web pages I've found referring to this range
> from
> > 2001 to present -- still apparently everybody is
> > having problems with this.  Does *anybody* here
> have
> > Python built from source on this OS?
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > > Today's Topics:
> > >
> > >    1. Re: ImportWarning flood (Nick Coghlan)
> > >    2. Re: ImportWarning flood (Ralf W.
> > > Grosse-Kunstleve)
> > >    3. Re: 2.5b1 Windows install (Nick Coghlan)
> > >    4. Re: ImportWarning flood (Michael Hudson)
> > >    5. Re: ImportWarning flood (A.M. Kuchling)
> > >    6. Re: ImportWarning flood (Benji York)
> > >    7. Re: Simple Switch statement (Michael
> Urman)
> > >    8. Re: ImportWarning flood (Nick Coghlan)
> > >    9. Re: Simple Switch statement (Guido van
> Rossum)
> > >   10. Re: pypy-0.9.0: stackless,   new extension
> > > compiler
> > >       (Carl Friedrich Bolz)
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> > >
> > > Message: 1
> > > Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:27:03 +1000
> > > From: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] ImportWarning flood
> > > To: Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
> > > Cc: python-dev at python.org
> > > Message-ID: <449FB677.9040505 at gmail.com>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1;
> > > format=flowed
> > >
> > > Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > > On 6/24/06, Jean-Paul Calderone
> > > <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
> > > >>> Actually, your application *was* pretty
> close to
> > > being broken a few
> > > >>> weeks ago, when Guido wanted to drop the
> > > requirement that a package
> > > >>> must contain an __init__ file. In that case,
> > > "import math" would have
> > > >>> imported the directory, and given you an
> empty
> > > package.
> > > >> But this change was *not* made, and afaict it
> is
> > > not going to be made.
> > > >
> > > > Correct. We'll stick with the warning. (At
> least
> > > until Py3k but most
> > > > likely also in Py3k.)
> > >
> > > Perhaps ImportWarning should default to being
> > > ignored, the same way
> > > PendingDeprecationWarning does?
> > >
> > > Then -Wd would become 'the one obvious way' to
> debug
> > > import problems, since it
> > > would switch ImportWarning on without drowning
> you
> > > in a flood of import
> > > diagnostics the way -v can do.
> > >
> > > Import Errors could even point you in the right
> > > direction:
> > >
> > >  >>> import mypackage.foo
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> > > ImportError: No module named mypackage.foo
> > >      Diagnostic import warnings can be enabled
> with
> > > -Wd
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Nick.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |
> > > Brisbane, Australia
> > >
> >
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> > >
> > > Message: 2
> > > Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:41:07 -0700 (PDT)
> > > From: "Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve"
> <rwgk at yahoo.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] ImportWarning flood
> > > To: python-dev at python.org
> > > Message-ID:
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> >
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> > >
> > > --- "Martin v. L???wis" <martin at v.loewis.de>
> wrote:
> > > > So spend some of the money to come up with an
> > > alternate solution for
> > > > 2.5b2. With a potential damage of a million
> > > dollars, it shouldn't be
> > > > too difficult to provide a patch by tomorrow,
> 
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