On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Steven D'Aprano < steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Yes, you read the subject line right -- Python 1.5. Yes, I am nuts ;) > > (I like having old versions of Python around for testing historical > behaviour.) > > On Debian squeeze, when I try to build Python 1.5, I get this error: > > fileobject.c:590: error: conflicting types for ‘getline’ > /usr/include/stdio.h:651: note: previous declaration of ‘getline’ was here > make[1]: *** [fileobject.o] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/steve/personal/python/Python-1.5.2/ > Objects' > make: *** [Objects] Error 2 > FWIW, I got the same error when I tried (Gentoo, with both GCC 4.1.2 and 4.5.3), and it worked just fine when I tried it on a CentOS 5 machine (consistent with your observations). There's a reasonably easy fix, though, that appears to work. You will need the compile line for that source file (and you'll need to go into the Objects/ dir). For me it was: gcc -g -O2 -I./../Include -I.. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c -o fileobject.o fileobject.c Following Cameron's advice, use the -E flag to produce a pre-processed source file, such as the command below: gcc -E -g -O2 -I./../Include -I.. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c -o fileobject_.c fileobject.c Edit this fileobject_.c file and remove the stdio prototype of getline. Then recompile using the original compile line (on fileobject_.c): gcc -g -O2 -I./../Include -I.. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c -o fileobject.o fileobject_.c For me this finishes fine. Then go back to the top-level directory and resume "make". It finished for me (and seems to be working): Batman src # python1.5 Python 1.5.2 (#1, Aug 28 2012, 20:13:23) [GCC 4.5.3] on linux3 Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam >>> import sys >>> dir(sys) ['__doc__', '__name__', '__stderr__', '__stdin__', '__stdout__', 'argv', 'builtin_module_names', 'copyright', 'exc_info', 'exc_type', 'exec_prefix', 'executable', 'exit', 'getrefcount', 'hexversion', 'maxint', 'modules', 'path', 'platform', 'prefix', 'ps1', 'ps2', 'setcheckinterval', 'setprofile', 'settrace', 'stderr', 'stdin', 'stdout', 'version'] >>> sys.version '1.5.2 (#1, Aug 28 2012, 20:13:23) [GCC 4.5.3]' >>> Good luck, Jason
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