Python 2.2.1 on Solaris 2.5.1: compilation problem

[Martin v. Löwis]

Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.pp.ru> writes:

>    Thank you very much for stepping in.
> 
>    It revealed that "destructor" was defined
> typedef void (*destructor)(PyObject *);
>    before.
> 
>    Not sure if I should report this as a bug.

That is a bug: All API in a header must start with a Py prefix to
avoid the kind of conflict you got.

Unfortunately, this probably cannot be fixed for 2.2; you'll have to
work around it locally. It is unfortunate that this wasn't changed in
the Grand Renaming - it sounds like rename3.h will be needed. (*)

You could also report this as a bug to Sun: 'destructor' is not an
identifier reserved for the implementation, so they should not use it
in their header. Indeed, Solaris 9 (and probably earlier) has

extern int pthread_key_create(pthread_key_t *, void (*)(void *));

Finally, you could report this as a GCC bug: they should fix the
system header via fixincludes. This is also the work-around which I'd
offer: copy pthread.h to .../gcc-lib/system/2.8.1/include/pthread.h,
and adjust the copy accordingly.

HTH,
Martin

(*) The other apparent fix is also not available: one could propose to
include pthread.h before Python.h, but the change in include order was
deliberate, so that the system headers could pick up any defines in
pyconfig.h.