Problems building Python1.5.2 for OpenStep

[Olaf Foellinger]

Hi,

I'm writing this without much knowledge of python but in the hope to get 
things running well.

As a tool for another project (Zope)  I've tried to compile python 1.5.2  for 
OpenStep. I've configured using 

$ ./configure --without-gcc --with-dyld

without any errors. Make brought the first error

cc  -g -O2 -OPT:Olimit=0 -I./../Include -I.. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c 
./posixmodule.c
./posixmodule.c: In function `posix_ttyname':
/posixmodule.c:613: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a 
cast
./posixmodule.c: In function `posix_fsync':
./posixmodule.c:656: `fsync' undeclared (first use this function)
./posixmodule.c:656: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
./posixmodule.c:656: for each function it appears in.)
make[1]: *** [posixmodule.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/private/tmp/O_py152/Python-1.5.2/Modules'
make: *** [Modules] Error 2

which I've solved by inserting the line 

extern int fsync(int);

in  Modules/posixmodule.c. Including <libc.h> didn't help because of 
conflicting types for 'chown'. After that everything compiled fine.

Now the test: 

make test

resulted in

test_cmath
/bin/sh: 7411 Bus error
make: [test] Error 138 (ignored)
PYTHONPATH= ./python ./Lib/test/regrtest.py

gdb showed, that the error occurs in the last return statement of

Py_complex
PyComplex_AsCComplex(op)
	PyObject *op;
{
	Py_complex cv;
	if (PyComplex_Check(op)) {
		return ((PyComplexObject *)op)->cval;
	} else {
		cv.real = PyFloat_AsDouble(op);
		cv.imag = 0.;
		return cv;  /* error occurs here */
	}   
}
 
After removing test_cmath.py python doesn't crash any more but fails with two 
trsts:

test test_strftime failed -- Writing: 'Conflict for %j (julian day 
(001-366)):', expected: ''
test test_time failed -- Writing: 'time.mktime(time.localtime(t)) <> t', 
expected: ''

Any hints solving these problems are welcome.

Greetings Olaf