Re: [Python-Dev] Multiprocessing on Solaris

2009-03-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I've started with a autoconf file for the multiprocessing backport > package. The tests should produce the same set of definitions but I'm > not able to test it on different platforms expect Linux. > http://python-multiprocessing.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/configure.ac If you want to see how it fa

Re: [Python-Dev] Multiprocessing on Solaris

2009-03-23 Thread Christian Heimes
Jesse Noller wrote: > Christian - I would appreciate it if we could coordinate/track this on > the tracker too - I had no idea you were doing this in the back port, > and I don't think we want the two code bases to diverge that much. You could not have known about the idea because I started the ex

Re: [Python-Dev] Multiprocessing on Solaris

2009-03-23 Thread Jesse Noller
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Christian Heimes wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> I think multiprocessing is misguided in hard-coding these settings >> into setup.py. As we can see, the necessary features are available >> on some versions of Solaris, but not on others. It would be better >> if

Re: [Python-Dev] Multiprocessing on Solaris

2009-03-23 Thread Christian Heimes
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > I think multiprocessing is misguided in hard-coding these settings > into setup.py. As we can see, the necessary features are available > on some versions of Solaris, but not on others. It would be better > if autoconf tests were written, and the entire configuration remove

Re: [Python-Dev] Multiprocessing on Solaris

2009-03-23 Thread Scott Dial
Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> Sorry, I mistakenly said "without issue" and then copied the issues >> below. I meant to say "not without issues." _multiprocessing does *not* >> build on Solaris 8. > > Hmm. They are all warnings - did you omit the actual error message? > > The lack of CMSG_LEN seems to

Re: [Python-Dev] Multiprocessing on Solaris

2009-03-23 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Sorry, I mistakenly said "without issue" and then copied the issues > below. I meant to say "not without issues." _multiprocessing does *not* > build on Solaris 8. Hmm. They are all warnings - did you omit the actual error message? The lack of CMSG_LEN seems to suggest that control messages are

Re: [Python-Dev] Multiprocessing on Solaris

2009-03-22 Thread Scott Dial
Christian Heimes wrote: > Martin v. Löwis schrieb: >>> According to the user's experience multiprocessing should not compile >>> and run correctly unless this patch is applied. >> Can this please be more qualified? I can confirm Scott's observation: >> for the trunk, it compiles just fine, using Su

Re: [Python-Dev] Multiprocessing on Solaris

2009-03-22 Thread Christian Heimes
Martin v. Löwis schrieb: >> According to the user's experience multiprocessing should not compile >> and run correctly unless this patch is applied. > > Can this please be more qualified? I can confirm Scott's observation: > for the trunk, it compiles just fine, using SunPro CC on Solaris 10, > on

Re: [Python-Dev] Multiprocessing on Solaris

2009-03-22 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> According to the user's experience multiprocessing should not compile > and run correctly unless this patch is applied. Can this please be more qualified? I can confirm Scott's observation: for the trunk, it compiles just fine, using SunPro CC on Solaris 10, on SPARC. Also, test_multiprocessing

Re: [Python-Dev] Multiprocessing on Solaris

2009-03-20 Thread Jesse Noller
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:51 PM, wrote: >    Jesse> Known issue: > >    Jesse> http://bugs.python.org/issue3110 > >    Jesse> I haven't had time to look into it, I was planning on working on >    Jesse> many of the mp bugs during the sprint at pycon. > > Jesse, I will be at the sprints for a coup

Re: [Python-Dev] Multiprocessing on Solaris

2009-03-20 Thread skip
Jesse> Known issue: Jesse> http://bugs.python.org/issue3110 Jesse> I haven't had time to look into it, I was planning on working on Jesse> many of the mp bugs during the sprint at pycon. Jesse, I will be at the sprints for a couple days and should be able to test things out on So

Re: [Python-Dev] Multiprocessing on Solaris

2009-03-20 Thread Scott Dial
Jesse Noller wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Christian Heimes wrote: >> Martin v. Löwis schrieb: Today I was in contact with a Python user who tried to compile pyprocessing - the ancestor of multiprocessing - on Solaris. It failed to run because Solaris is missing two feat

Re: [Python-Dev] Multiprocessing on Solaris

2009-03-20 Thread Jesse Noller
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Christian Heimes wrote: > Martin v. Löwis schrieb: >>> Today I was in contact with a Python user who tried to compile >>> pyprocessing - the ancestor of multiprocessing - on Solaris. It failed >>> to run because Solaris is missing two features (HAVE_FD_TRANSFER and

Re: [Python-Dev] Multiprocessing on Solaris

2009-03-20 Thread Christian Heimes
Martin v. Löwis schrieb: >> Today I was in contact with a Python user who tried to compile >> pyprocessing - the ancestor of multiprocessing - on Solaris. It failed >> to run because Solaris is missing two features (HAVE_FD_TRANSFER and >> HAVE_SEM_TIMEDWAIT). Does anybody have a Solaris box at his

Re: [Python-Dev] Multiprocessing on Solaris

2009-03-20 Thread Jesse Noller
Known issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue3110 I haven't had time to look into it, I was planning on working on many of the mp bugs during the sprint at pycon. On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Christian Heimes wrote: > Hello fellow co-developers! > > Today I was in contact with a Python user who

Re: [Python-Dev] Multiprocessing on Solaris

2009-03-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Today I was in contact with a Python user who tried to compile > pyprocessing - the ancestor of multiprocessing - on Solaris. It failed > to run because Solaris is missing two features (HAVE_FD_TRANSFER and > HAVE_SEM_TIMEDWAIT). Does anybody have a Solaris box at his disposal to > test the setti

[Python-Dev] Multiprocessing on Solaris

2009-03-20 Thread Christian Heimes
Hello fellow co-developers! Today I was in contact with a Python user who tried to compile pyprocessing - the ancestor of multiprocessing - on Solaris. It failed to run because Solaris is missing two features (HAVE_FD_TRANSFER and HAVE_SEM_TIMEDWAIT). Does anybody have a Solaris box at his disposa