Thanks for posting this to the tracker mattias - as soon as I can steal some time, I'll dig into it and see if I can get it teed up for the patch release.
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:24 AM, brasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 6, 10:16 am, brasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I am having some trouble building Python 2.6 on AIX. The steps I have >> taken are: >> >> export PATH=/usr/bin/:/usr/vacpp/bin/ >> ./configure --with-gcc=xlc_r --with-cxx=xlC_r --disable-ipv6 >> make >> >> This is the error message I'm seeing: >> ./Modules/ld_so_aix xlc_r -bI:Modules/python.exp build/ >> temp.aix-5.2-2.6/home/mabr/Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/ >> multiprocessing.o build/temp.aix-5.2-2.6/home/mabr/Python-2.6/Modules/ >> _multiprocessing/socket_connection.o build/temp.aix-5.2-2.6/home/mabr/ >> Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/semaphore.o -L/usr/local/lib -o >> build/lib.aix-5.2-2.6/_multiprocessing.so >> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .sem_timedwait >> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .CMSG_SPACE >> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .CMSG_LEN >> ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more >> information. >> *** WARNING: renaming "_multiprocessing" since importing it failed: No >> such file or directory >> error: No such file or directory >> make: The error code from the last command is 1. >> >> Have someone on this list had similar problems? Am I missing some >> libraries? The configure script runs without errors, I would have >> expected some kind of error there if I was missing something. >> >> Regards, >> Mattias > > OK. I have made some changes in the source that lets me build on AIX > 5.2. I thought I could post the patch here and perhaps someone can > tell me if I am on the wrong track or if this is an OK fix on AIX. > > Basically I have changed setup.py to define HAVE_SEM_TIMED_WAIT=0 on > aix. I have also defined CMESG_SPACE and CMESG_LEN in terms of > _CMSG_ALIGN (see http://homepage.mac.com/cjgibbons/rubyonaixhowto/x72.html) > in multipocessing.c. (I realise that this breaks some other platforms, > but right now I just need to build on AIX). > > Here is a patch: > > diff -Naur Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.c > Python-2.6-clean-patch/Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.c > --- Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.c > 2008-06-14 00:38:33.000000000 +0200 > +++ Python-2.6-clean-patch/Modules/_multiprocessing/ > multiprocessing.c 2008-10-07 12:23:55.000000000 +0200 > @@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ > > #include "multiprocessing.h" > > +#ifndef CMSG_SPACE > +#define CMSG_SPACE(len) (_CMSG_ALIGN(sizeof(struct cmsghdr)) + > _CMSG_ALIGN(len)) > +#endif > +#ifndef CMSG_LEN > +#define CMSG_LEN(len) (_CMSG_ALIGN(sizeof(struct cmsghdr)) + (len)) > +#endif > + > PyObject *create_win32_namespace(void); > > PyObject *pickle_dumps, *pickle_loads, *pickle_protocol; > diff -Naur Python-2.6/setup.py Python-2.6-clean-patch/setup.py > --- Python-2.6/setup.py 2008-09-30 02:15:45.000000000 +0200 > +++ Python-2.6-clean-patch/setup.py 2008-10-07 12:23:34.000000000 > +0200 > @@ -1277,6 +1277,14 @@ > ) > libraries = [] > > + elif platform.startswith('aix'): > + macros = dict( > + HAVE_SEM_OPEN=1, > + HAVE_SEM_TIMEDWAIT=0, > + HAVE_FD_TRANSFER=1 > + ) > + libraries = ['rt'] > + > else: # Linux and other > unices > macros = dict( > HAVE_SEM_OPEN=1, > > Perhaps this should go to some other list? > > :.:: mattias > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
