Michael Ströder wrote:
I'm trying to build Python2.4 on a rather old Debian machine. I only have a shell account there. That's why I'm very limited in my actions.
Building _socket fails (see below) although I tried to use
configure --disable-ipv6
Any clue?
Hard to say, since you don't indicate what clues you are lacking.
My wanted clue: How to build it without modifying the Python 2.4 sources?
In general, when the C compiler gives an error message, it is best to try to understand the error message. The message reads
socketmodule.c:3350: `INET_ADDRSTRLEN' undeclared (first use this function)
Thanks for your answer. I do understand the message. I searched some archives and found similar bug reports in the SF issue tracker which were for Python 2.3 on Irix and seemed to be fixed.
Looking at a more recent system in /usr/include, I get
/usr/include$ grep -r ADDRSTRLEN . ./netinet/in.h:#define INET_ADDRSTRLEN 16
Note that building Python2.2 worked on the very same machine. I've added
#define INET_ADDRSTRLEN 16
to socketmodule.h and it worked. But I think there might be something wrong with the autoconf stuff.
I filed bug [ 1078245 ]: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1078245&group_id=5470&atid=105470
Ciao, Michael. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
