[Python-Dev] Python 2.6: OverflowError: signed integer is greater than maximum

[Mark Dickinson]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse
<jasper at humppa.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while trying to get Python 2.6 working on OpenBSD/sgi (64-bit port)
> I ran into the following during build:
>
> OverflowError: signed integer is greater than maximum
>
> I ran the command that triggered this by hand with -v added:

[traceback snipped]

> Does anyone know what's going on here, or how to fix it?
> I can provide a full build and configure log if needed.

No idea.  Please could you file a report at http://bugs.python.org?
The build and configure log would be useful.  If you can diagnose
the source of the failure yourself any further that would be more
useful;  I suspect that the core developers will have a hard time
figuring the problem out without this.

I may well be barking up the wrong tree here, but as a first guess
it looks as though something in the _PySys_Init function in
Python/sysmodule.c is (directly or indirectly) causing the
OverflowError to be raised.  I'd try adding a bunch of
printf calls to that function that print the value of
PyErr_Occurred(), to see where (if at all) the Python exception
is being set.  (I suggest building with the --with-pydebug configure
option for this.)

Mark