[issue11102] configure doesn't find "major()" on HP-UX v11.31

Change by Michael Osipov <1983-01...@gmx.net>: -- nosy: +michael-o ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue11102] configure doesn't find "major()" on HP-UX v11.31

Change by Zackery Spytz : -- versions: +Python 3.9 -Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue11102] configure doesn't find "major()" on HP-UX v11.31

Change by Zackery Spytz : -- nosy: +ZackerySpytz nosy_count: 2.0 -> 3.0 pull_requests: +19172 stage: needs patch -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/19856 ___ Python tracker

[issue11102] configure doesn't find major() on HP-UX v11.31

Changes by R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com: -- nosy: -r.david.murray stage: commit review - needs patch versions: +Python 3.4, Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue11102

[issue11102] configure doesn't find major() on HP-UX v11.31

R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: Well, one way might be to set up and maintain an HP/UX buildbot :) Other than that, just keep bugging us periodically until someone gets around to doing it. -- nosy: +r.david.murray stage: - commit review type: - compile error

[issue11102] configure doesn't find major() on HP-UX v11.31

Oren Held o...@held.org.il added the comment: Any tip on how to make this patch get committed? :) -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue11102 ___

[issue11102] configure doesn't find major() on HP-UX v11.31

Oren Held o...@held.org.il added the comment: Just a small note: after this patch applied, building Python 2.7.1 was successful on Linux (SLES 11, RHEL 5, Ubuntu 10.10), Solaris 10, and HP-UX 11 v3. (I didn't get to build Python on other platforms) --

[issue11102] configure doesn't find major() on HP-UX v11.31

New submission from Oren Held o...@held.org.il: The effect eventually is that on HP-UX v3 there are no os.major() and os.minor() functions. I tried to dig deeper to find out what's wrong, and it seems that 'configure' script fails on 'major' check and thus disables the 'major' feature:

[issue11102] configure doesn't find major() on HP-UX v11.31

Oren Held o...@held.org.il added the comment: Attaching a patch I've made for fixing the problem in HP-UX, simply by #including sys/types.h on the configure test.. 1. I'm not sure it'll be good for all platforms; maybe we need more 'configure' magic here to make it #include sys/types.h on

[issue11102] configure doesn't find major() on HP-UX v11.31

Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: AFAICT, including sys/types.h by default in the test should be fine. It's a standard header file (atleast for Posixish systems), so it should always be present, and including it shouldn't cause harm even if it's not needed. --