Re: python 2.5, opensolaris and SunPro

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

Roland Illig wrote:
> Carl Brewer schrieb:
> > CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc
> > CXX=cc
>
> Whew, your C compiler can translate C++ code, too?

I thought it did by default these days?


> > PKGSRC_COMPILER=        sunpro
> > CC=                     /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc
>
> I prefer it if you set SUNWSPROBASE=/opt/SUNWspro instead. That will
> make the C++ compiler available, too.

Is that best set in mk.conf or an environment variable?

> > Out of curiosity, am I walking down a dead end path with pkgsrc and
> > SunPro CC on OpenSolaris?  Roughly how many people use it?
>
> No, you aren't. When I had access to such a system, it worked quite
> well. Now I don't have access anymore, but some other developers
> certainly do. I just looked at the build reports at
>
>     ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/reports/SunOS/i386/
>
> 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.