On 5/30/06, Andreas Flöter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have filed a bug report "Building Python 2.4.3 on Solaris 9/10 with Sun > Studio 11" 1496561 in the Python tracker. The problem I have encountered is, > that some of the unit tests of the application roundup fail with Python > producing a segmentation fault and dumping core, if Python was build with Sun > Studio 11 (Sun C 5.8). In fact not only some of the unit tests fail, but also > the application roundup at certain steps. > > If gcc is used, everything works fine. As Richard Jones suggests, it might be > a problem in the anydbm module. I would rather prefer to use the native > compiler of a platform. To name only two reason, distributing the application > is easier (dynamic library dependencies are most likely met on the target > system) and Sun is maintaining the reference native libraries.
On the other hand, there is the fact that the binaries produced by the Sun compiler segfault... :-) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
