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

[Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 07:15:20PM +0000, Mark Dickinson wrote:
> 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
Hi,

for the record, I filed the bug as: http://bugs.python.org/issue7296
In the meantime I'll try digging into this issue.

  Cheers,
  Jasper

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