[Patches] [ python-Patches-1471925 ] Weak linking support for OSX

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Patches item #1471925, was opened at 2006-04-17 21:49
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Category: Modules
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Weak linking support for OSX

Initial Comment:
The "itch" that is scratched by this patch is the wish to be able to use a 
python binary that was build on OSX 10.4 on OSX 10.3 systems. At the 
same time the binary should offer full access to OSX 10.4 API's when 
running on that system.

This patch weakly links a number of functions in the posix, time and 
socket modules.

I'm not quite happy with code duplication in the time and socket modules, 
but don't quite know how to fix that.

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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2006-04-18 00:18

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The patch looks fine to me. I wonder why you are clearing
the errors from PyObject_DelAttrString, though: There
shouldn't be any errors (right?), so if that fails,
something is seriously wrong.

As for the time changes: are you saying OSX doesn't have
gettimeofday? I can find a manual page on

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/gettimeofday.2.html

This has higher resolution than ftime, and also takes higher
precedence in timemodule.c: Why is it not used?

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Comment By: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren)
Date: 2006-04-17 21:50

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I should not that I haven't checked this patch on other platforms than osx 10.4/
intel. 

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