[issue19998] Python 2.7.6 fails to build _ctypes on GCC 2.x toolchain

2013-12-20 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I believe an upstream change will be automatically picked up by any subsequent CPython release without an explicit tracker patch. -- nosy: +terry.reedy resolution: -> later status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue19998] Python 2.7.6 fails to build _ctypes on GCC 2.x toolchain

2013-12-17 Thread Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll added the comment: As requested, I've opened the issue with the libffi project: https://github.com/atgreen/libffi/issues/63 -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue19998] Python 2.7.6 fails to build _ctypes on GCC 2.x toolchain

2013-12-16 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis added the comment: Modules/_ctypes/libffi directory contains a copy of externally maintained libffi library. Please report problem to libffi maintainers: https://github.com/atgreen/libffi -- nosy: +Arfrever ___ Pyt

[issue19998] Python 2.7.6 fails to build _ctypes on GCC 2.x toolchain

2013-12-16 Thread Jim Carroll
New submission from Jim Carroll: When building Python 2.7.6 on older GCC 2.x, the _ctypes module fails to build. The failure is caused due to a header file reference to __builtin_expect (the author expected this to be available when the module was built with gcc, but did not take into account