#7892: Python fails to build hashlib module on Solaris 8
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Reporter: drkirkby | Owner: drkirkby
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.3.1
Component: solaris | Keywords:
Work_issues: | Author:
Upstream: N/A | Reviewer:
Merged: |
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Although Solaris 8 is not supported, I thought I'd try a build of Sage 4.3
on a Sun Blade 1000 running Solaris 8 10/2001 - the first release of
Solaris 8 I believe.
This was useful, as it highlighted a failure in Python's spkg-install. The
spkg-install exited with no useful error message - it did not give a clue
where the failure was, due to incorrect usage of 'set -e'.
However, after correcting the spkg-install issue (#7761), the reason for
the failure become apparent - a failure to build the Python haslib module.
This is exactly the same failure which caused myself and Jaap Spies a lot
of grief - see #7761.
It would appear that either the wrong version of OpenSSL or a mixture of
OpenSSL versions can easily cause Python to fail to build the haslib
module. Finding a suitable version can be tricky, and there is no obvious
way to specify which version of OpenSSL python should use if there are
more than one version present. In this case, I believe there was only one
version, so I'm unsure why Python would not build haslib with it. Perhaps
this version is too new for the version of Python in Solaris
For this Solaris 8 build, I purposely used oldish versions of tools when I
built from source, but used whatever I found first on Sunfreeware for the
binaries, which tend to be a lot newer than 2001 when this version of
Solaris was released. The basic build process was:
* Install Solaris 8 Solaris 8 10/01 (an old i.e. October 2001 release)
* Download wget 1.12, which needed OpenSSL. The version of OpenSSL
installed was 0.9.8l, which is the latest release.
* Download a binary of gcc 3.4.6 from Sunfreeware.com, as this version of
Solaris 8 came with no gcc.
* Download necessary libraries for gcc.
* Install gcc 4.0.4 from source, as gcc 3.4.6 is too old to build Sage.
* Download a binary of perl v5.8.8 from Sunfreeware, as the perl 5.005_03
in Solaris 8 is too old to build Sage (or at least 'prereq' exits with a
version this old. I doubt anyone has actually tested all versions to find
the absolute minimum necessary).
'''It would appear we need to address exactly the issue of OpenSSL with
Solaris, as it is problematic.'''
{{{
changing mode of /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/lib/python2.6/lib-
dynload/_multiprocessing_failed.so to 755
changing mode of /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/lib/python2.6/lib-
dynload/_ctypes.so to 755
changing mode of /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/lib/python2.6/lib-
dynload/ to 755
running install_scripts
copying build/scripts-2.6/pydoc ->
/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/bin
copying build/scripts-2.6/idle -> /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/bin
copying build/scripts-2.6/2to3 -> /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/bin
copying build/scripts-2.6/smtpd.py ->
/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/bin
changing mode of /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/bin/pydoc to 755
changing mode of /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/bin/idle to 755
changing mode of /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/bin/2to3 to 755
changing mode of /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/bin/smtpd.py to 755
running install_egg_info
Writing /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/lib/python2.6/lib-
dynload/Python-2.6.2-py2.6.egg-info
if test -f /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/bin/python -o -h
/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/bin/python; \
then rm -f /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/bin/python; \
else true; \
fi
(cd /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/bin; ln python2.6 python)
rm -f /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/bin/python-config
(cd /export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/bin; ln -s python2.6-config
python-config)
./install-sh -c -m 644 ./Misc/python.man \
/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/share/man/man1/python.1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/spkg/build/python-2.6.2.p5/src'
Sleeping for three seconds before testing python
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/lib/python2.6/hashlib.py",
line 136, in <module>
md5 = __get_builtin_constructor('md5')
File "/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3/local/lib/python2.6/hashlib.py",
line 63, in __get_builtin_constructor
import _md5
ImportError: No module named _md5
hashlib module failed to import
real 10m31.767s
user 8m6.410s
sys 1m51.870s
sage: An error occurred while installing python-2.6.2.p5
}}}
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