Python 2.4.2 make failure in posixmodule on OSX 10.4.3

[smurphus]

Hi All-

I'm trying to build Python 2.4.2 on OSX 10.4.3 (gcc ver. 3.3 apple
build 1495) and have the following error when running 'make':

gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp
-mno-fused-madd -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I.
-I./Include  -DPy_BUILD_CORE  -c ./Modules/posixmodule.c -o
Modules/posixmodule.o
Modules/posixmodule.c: In function `posix_lchown':
Modules/posixmodule.c:1353: warning: implicit declaration of function
`lchown'
Modules/posixmodule.c:5999:25: sys/statvfs.h: No such file or directory
Modules/posixmodule.c: At top level:
Modules/posixmodule.c:6002: error: parameter `st' has incomplete type
Modules/posixmodule.c: In function `posix_fstatvfs':
Modules/posixmodule.c:6048: error: storage size of `st' isn't known
Modules/posixmodule.c:6053: warning: implicit declaration of function
`fstatvfs'
Modules/posixmodule.c:6048: warning: unused variable `st'
Modules/posixmodule.c:6064:25: sys/statvfs.h: No such file or directory
Modules/posixmodule.c: In function `posix_statvfs':
Modules/posixmodule.c:6075: error: storage size of `st' isn't known
Modules/posixmodule.c:6079: warning: implicit declaration of function
`statvfs'
Modules/posixmodule.c:6075: warning: unused variable `st'
make: *** [Modules/posixmodule.o] Error 1

'make clean' hasn't helped, and I ran configure with
'--disable-toolbox-glue'.

I need to build it from source because I have a program with a long
running worker thread that I think will benefit from using Evan Jones'
memory management patch (http://evanjones.ca/python-memory-part2.html).
 Note that I haven't applied the diff yet; this is just the reason I
need to build from source.

Couldn't find anything on this in the group already, or the main Python
site, or in any of the docs with the distribution.
Any suggestions on how I can remedy this?

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Re: Python 2.4.2 make failure in posixmodule on OSX 10.4.3

[smurphus]

Thanks for the reply, Martin.

I know a bit of C.  I thought maybe I was missing something simple,
since I don't have an exotic system configuration.

Re: lchown
the file posixmodule.c in Python does include  and I have
that header where it should be, i.e. /usr/include/sys/types.h so I
don't know why it tells me lchown is implicitly defined after the
include.

The next error with statvfs.h perhaps makes more sense.  I do not have
/usr/include/sys/statvfs.h on my system, and the statement #include
 is in an include guard, #if defined(HAVE_FSTATVFS).  I
assume that's not being detected properly by the configure script?

I hope that information is of some use.  Not sure where to go from
here.

Thanks.

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Re: Python 2.4.2 make failure in posixmodule on OSX 10.4.3

[smurphus]

I just re-ran the configure script.

It reports:
checking for lchown... yes
checking for fstatvfs... yes

??

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Re: Python 2.4.2 make failure in posixmodule on OSX 10.4.3

[smurphus]

configure also reports
checking for statvfs... yes

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Re: Python 2.4.2 make failure in posixmodule on OSX 10.4.3

[smurphus]

Yes, it looks like I was missing the necessary headers.  Once I
replaced them, it has been smooth sailing.

Thank you for your assitance, Martin.

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