[issue4431] Distutils MSVC doesn't create manifest file (with fix)

2011-10-12 Thread David Schnur
David Schnur dnsch...@gmail.com added the comment: I haven't commented since opening this issue, but I've been following along. Regarding Marc-Andre's latest comment, I think whether to embed a manifest or not is a separate issue. The current behavior is to embed a manifest, and so

[issue9742] Python 2.7: math module fails to build on Solaris 9

2011-04-21 Thread David Schnur
David Schnur david.sch...@dartware.com added the comment: I encountered this problem when updating from 2.6.4 to 2.7.1 on Solaris 8, which also doesn't have 'round'. I tried srmadsen's --whole-archive option, but it wasn't recognized by the (somewhat ancient) tools on that machine. I solved

[issue2504] Add gettext.pgettext() and variants support

2009-07-09 Thread David Schnur
David Schnur david.sch...@dartware.com added the comment: I came across this ticket while looking for alternatives to Python's gettext, since I need msgctx support. It seems a patch was supplied for this a while back. I have never contributed to Python, and am not familiar with your release

[issue4431] Distutils MSVC doesn't create manifest file (with fix)

2008-11-25 Thread David Schnur
New submission from David Schnur [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is my first time submitting an issue; sorry if I am doing this wrong. While attempting to build/install PyOpenSSL on Windows / MSVC, the mt.exe step failed because it could not find the manifest file that it was attempting to embed

[issue4431] Distutils MSVC doesn't create manifest file (with fix)

2008-11-25 Thread David Schnur
David Schnur [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: I looked at this some more (I'm not super familiar with the use of manifests) and I think I figured it out. For somewhat complicated reasons, I'm compiling with /MT rather than /MD. Although link normally produces a manifest, since it's