I'm trying to run some aged software on a new machine which runs
Linux app2.reportlab.com 2.6.32-30-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 21:30:46 UTC
2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
The software is required to use python 2.3 so first I've had some problems
building python itself. Apparently to get rid of segfaults during the build we
need the configure args to include
BASECFLAGS=-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE
that certainly fixes the python build errors.
Now when we come to run the aged application we get this
$ ./xxx.cgi
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/rptlab/website/develop.reportlab.com/cgi-bin/xxx.cgi", line 7, in
?
from fastwebapp import FastWebApp
OverflowError: signed integer is greater than maximum
this appears to be related to the use of a zip import.
> sys.path.insert(0,os.path.join(os.getcwd(),"fastapp.zip"))
> from fastwebapp import FastWebApp
if we unpack the zip and remove the path insert the application appears to run
fine.
Googling appears to indicate that others have seen this error but on a different
hardware and trying to remove optimizations from the python build has had
variable success.
Anyone had any real success with this problem? The last version of the test
machinery ran 32bit freebsd and we had no problems on that hardware.
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Robin Becker
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