[Patches] [ python-Patches-1416559 ] Configure patch for Mac OS X 10.3

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Patches item #1416559, was opened at 2006-01-27 16:50
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Category: Build
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Closed
Resolution: Accepted
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Configure patch for Mac OS X 10.3

Initial Comment:
This patch makes sure that _POSIX_SOURCE and friends won't get defined 
when you build on Panther. Defining those have no effect on Panther, but 
will make it impossible to build extensions on a Tiger system when 
Python itself was build on Panther.

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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2006-04-04 08:09

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This patch cheated in a really dangerous way: the configure
fragment was gained through editing, not through running
autoconf. This was really bad, as it broke two months and a
release later.

The problem is that, in configure.in, [ does not denote a
shell square bracket - it denotes an m4 quoted string. The
square bracket is denoted with a quadrigraph.

When committing configure.in, please always ignore configure
fragments, and run autoconf/autoheader yourself.

I fixed that in 43617 and 43618.

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Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2006-04-01 10:51

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Committed in 43536, 43537.

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Comment By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
Date: 2006-03-20 05:11

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Ronald, this looks fine, go ahead and checkin.

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Comment By: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren)
Date: 2006-02-21 10:23

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I don't suppose this helps, but  yes this patch is save.  I use this in production 
and haven't found an extension yet that wouldn't work when this patch is 
applied.  I've also looked at the platform header files to determine if the patch is 
save.

We (Bob Ippolitto and myself) are using a simular patch in our ongoing work to 
create an universal build of python.

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Comment By: Georg Brandl (birkenfeld)
Date: 2006-02-19 16:54

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Can any OS X expert confirm that not defining _XOPEN_SOURCE
and _POSIX_C_SOURCE hasn't a negative effect on OSX 10.3?

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