[Python-Dev] Working on issue 23496: should I use a macro test or an edit to configure.ac?

[Ryan Smith-Roberts]

I'm not an official cpython developer but ifdef __ANDROID__ is quite in
line with other per-platform support (__FreeBSD__, __linux__, etc), as well
as already being in use in Modules/_posixsubprocess.c. Is __ANDROID__ not
being defined when it should be?

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:

> DOES NOBODY HAVE AN ANSWER TO THIS???
>
> I'm REALLY relying on someone who works on Python to answer this. PLEASE??
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So...
>>
>> There was a recent discussion here on porting Python to Android. Well,
>> for those of you who saw too many unread messages and marked the whole
>> thread as read like I usually do, I helped Cyd figure out some patches that
>> make it work. Cyd then opened Issue 23496
>> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23496>. Now, I'm going to try to redo the
>> patches against HEAD (or tip in Mercurial language).
>>
>> Which leads me to the question. See, of course, the patches should only
>> be enabled if Python is being built targeting Android, but I'm not sure how
>> that should be detected.
>>
>> I know that the Android target triple is arm-linux-androideabi. Should I
>> test for the __ANDROID__ macro in the source file, or should I modify
>> configure.ac to detect Android and define its own macro? Also, if a
>> configure.ac edit is preferred, where should it be? It's slightly
>> painful to scan through all 4000 lines of Python's configure script. ;)
>>
>> --
>> Ryan
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>> "It's becauseslejfp23(@#Q*(E*EIdc-SEGFAULT. Wait, I don't think that was
>> nul-terminated."
>> Personal reality distortion fields are immune to contradictory evidence.
>> - srean
>> Check out my website: http://kirbyfan64.github.io/
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Ryan
> If anybody ever asks me why I prefer C++ to C, my answer will be simple:
> "It's becauseslejfp23(@#Q*(E*EIdc-SEGFAULT. Wait, I don't think that was
> nul-terminated."
> Personal reality distortion fields are immune to contradictory evidence. -
> srean
> Check out my website: http://kirbyfan64.github.io/
>
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