[Python-Dev] Bad python 2.5 build on OSX 10.8 mountain lion

[Stefan Krah]

Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> > Forgot the link...
> > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7885
> > 
> > On Monday, October 1, 2012, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > 
> > > As discussed here, the python 2.5 binary distributed by Apple on mountain
> > > lion is broken. Could someone file an official complaint? This is really
> > > bad...
> 
> I've filed a bug against 10.8 python2.5.   The 10.8 versions of Apple's 
> pythons are compile with clang and we did see some sign extension issues 
> with ctypes.  The 10.7 version of Apple's python2.5 is compiled with 
> llvm-gcc and handles 2**31 correctly.

Yes, this looks like http://bugs.python.org/issue11149 .


Stefan Krah