[Python-Dev] Addition of "pyprocessing" module to standard lib.

[Thomas Heller]

Martin v. Löwis schrieb:
>>> We actually have a couple of Solaris buildbots already - as I
>>> understand it, the issue there isn't Solaris as such, it's being able
>>> to use the Sun compiler instead of GCC to compile ctypes/libffi.
>> 
>> Does that mean that we need access to the Sun compiler or that the Sun
>> compiler has bugs which prevent ctypes from compiling?
> 
> Neither, nor. ctypes (or, rather, libffi) has code specific to gcc
> (or, rather, the GNU assembler) that makes the Sun compiler reject
> it. IIRC, it chokes on the attempt to compile assembler code that
> has C preprocessor macros in it (can't test it right now).

Could it be a solution to build libffi with gcc, then configure Python
with '--with-system--ffi' and compile with the sun compiler, or would this
introduce the dependencies on libgcc or whatever again that Ulrich wanted
to avoid?

Thomas