[issue1544339] _ctypes fails to build on Solaris x86 32-bit (Sun compiler)

[Skip Montanaro]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> added the comment:

*argh* segfault running tests w/ Sun Studio 12 compiled version
of ctypes 1.0.2:

% python ctypes/test/runtests.py -v
sh: objdump: not found
        find_library('c') -> sh: objdump: not found
 None
        find_library('m') -> sh: objdump: not found
 None
test_anon (ctypes.test.test_anon.AnonTest) ... ok
test_anon_nonmember (ctypes.test.test_anon.AnonTest) ... ok
test_anon_nonseq (ctypes.test.test_anon.AnonTest) ... ok
test_nested (ctypes.test.test_anon.AnonTest) ... ok
test (ctypes.test.test_array_in_pointer.Test) ... ok
test_2 (ctypes.test.test_array_in_pointer.Test) ... ok
test_classcache (ctypes.test.test_arrays.ArrayTestCase) ... ok
test_from_address (ctypes.test.test_arrays.ArrayTestCase) ... ok
test_from_addressW (ctypes.test.test_arrays.ArrayTestCase) ... ok
test_numeric_arrays (ctypes.test.test_arrays.ArrayTestCase) ... ok
test_simple (ctypes.test.test_arrays.ArrayTestCase) ... ok
test_byval
(ctypes.test.test_as_parameter.AsParamPropertyWrapperTestCase) ...
oktest_callbacks
(ctypes.test.test_as_parameter.AsParamPropertyWrapperTestCase) ...
Segmentation Fault

Beginning of backtrace:

#0  0xfeb50ad4 in ffi_closure_SYSV_inner ()
   from
/export/home/skipm/python-sunstudio/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_ctypes.so
#1  0xfeb50cca in ffi_closure_SYSV ()
   from
/export/home/skipm/python-sunstudio/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_ctypes.so
#2  0xfe9d141f in _testfunc_callback_i_if ()
   from
/export/home/skipm/python-sunstudio/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_ctypes_test.so
#3  0xfeb50c4f in ffi_call_SYSV ()
   from
/export/home/skipm/python-sunstudio/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_ctypes.so
#4  0xfeb50aa4 in ffi_call ()
   from
/export/home/skipm/python-sunstudio/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_ctypes.so
#5  0xfeb4b440 in _call_function_pointer ()
   from
/export/home/skipm/python-sunstudio/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_ctypes.so
#6  0xfeb4baa0 in _CallProc ()
   from
/export/home/skipm/python-sunstudio/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_ctypes.so
#7  0xfeb483ea in CFuncPtr_call ()
   from
/export/home/skipm/python-sunstudio/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_ctypes.so
#8  0xfeeb23ba in PyObject_Call ()
   from /export/home/skipm/python-sunstudio/lib/libpython2.4.so.1.0
#9  0xfef16c38 in do_call ()
   from /export/home/skipm/python-sunstudio/lib/libpython2.4.so.1.0

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