Re: python 2.5, opensolaris and SunPro

[Carl Brewer <carl%bl.echidna.id.au@localhost>]

Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> * On 2009-05-12 at 07:12 BST, Carl Brewer wrote:
>
> > > and saw that indeed, python 2.5 didn't build. That's because of an
> > > "undefined symbol FFI_DEFAULT_ABI". I expect this to be easy to fix.
> > Yeah, that's the one, I've submitted a bug report to gnats on it, it's a
> > dependancy on ctypes which is a GCC thing.
>
> It isn't an easy fix.  Your best bet is to set
>
>   PYTHON_VERSION_DEFAULT=24
>
> and wait for newer python/libffi to work with Sun Studio.

That's how you do it!  Thankyou.