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

[Ned Deily]

In article <nad-B4E67A.00475902102012 at news.gmane.org>,
 Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> In article <20121002073135.GA26567 at sleipnir.bytereef.org>,
>  Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:
> > 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?
> > > 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 . 
> Ah, right, thanks.  I've updated the Apple issue accordingly.

Update: the bug I filed has been closed as a duplicate of #11932488 
which apparently at the moment is still open.  No other information is 
available.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org