>>>>> "Guido" == Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Guido> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:21 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In trying to solve a build problem with the multiprocessing code on
>> Solaris10 I visited multiprocessing.c in XEmacs and noticed the files all
>> appear to have Windows line endings. Should those maybe be stripped to
>> conform to the other Python source?
Guido> Ow. definitely.
Yes. If I have some time Saturday and nobody beats me to it I'll fix this.
>> FWIW, it appears that Solaris doesn't define SEM_VALUE_MAX but does
>> define _SEM_VALUE_MAX in sys/params.h.
>>
>> .../Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.c: In function
'init_multiprocessing':
>> .../Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.c:253: error:
'SEM_VALUE_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
>> .../Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.c:253: error: (Each
undeclared identifier is reported only once
>> .../Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.c:253: error: for each
function it appears in.)
>>
>> On Windows the author simple #defines SEM_VALUE_MAX to be LONG_MAX. I
used
>> a little cpp action to define it:
>>
>> #ifndef SEM_VALUE_MAX
>> # ifdef _SEM_VALUE_MAX
>> # define SEM_VALUE_MAX _SEM_VALUE_MAX
>> # else
>> # define SEM_VALUE_MAX INT_MAX
>> # endif
>> #endif
Guido> Does this enable you to submit a patch?
Sure, I can submit a patch, though while that got me going I have no real
idea if that is the correct way to worm around the problem. I sort of think
this is something which should be tested for in configure. The code above
was just a guess.
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