Python 2.1 running on Mac OS X 10.0.1 here
John W. Baxter
jwbaxter at olympus.net
Mon Apr 23 12:06:08 EDT 2001
In article <mailman.987970473.31917.python-list at python.org>, Tim Peters
<tim.one at home.com> wrote:
> [John W. Baxter]
> > I built Python 2.1 as a Mac OS X admin user, using:
> >
> > ./configure --with-suffix=.exe --with-dyld"
> > make
> >
> > Then in make test, I saw the following error
> > test_re
> > make: *** [test] Segmentation fault
> > ...
>
> Look in the README file:
>
> Mac OS X: You need to add the "-traditional-cpp" option to the
> compiler command line for the Mac OS X Public Beta. This is
> appearantly a bug in the default pre-processor, and is
> expected not to be a problem with future versions. Run
> configure with "OPT='-g -traditional-cpp' ./configure
> --with-suffix=.exe --with-dyld" to add this
> option. One of the regular expression tests fails due to the
> small stack size used by default (how to change this?), and
> the test_largefile test is only expected to work on a Unix UFS
> filesystem (how to check for this on Mac OS X?).
Thanks, Tim...I took the "Mac OS X Public Beta" phrase in the above,
followed by "expected not to be a problem with future versions" to
suggest that I need not do that.
See also Steve's post suggesting
limit stack 4096
prior to trying the test...that solved the problem.
--John
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