int(long(-sys.maxint-1)) fails on Linux

[olli at rhein-zeitung.de]

Hi,

I compiled the packages on my Mandrake 6.0 system and I am looking into this
myself. ;-)) Concerning the release I have to admin that I am a little bit
late, but a lot of work had to be done. But here is a road map for all
interested:

- I asked for a mailing list on starship python and received it. It is called
  python4linux and should be used to discuss issues concerning the packages we
  make
- I wrote a announcement and request for participation, cause I like to move
  the whole project to a group effort (more work, new girl friend, new side
  projects -> less time to maintain the thing myself ;-)
- I finished a new spec file that can build RedHat6, Mandrake6 and RedHat5
  packages with just one extra parameter during compilation

All this (after a weekend of testing is ready and available on Monday. The
Announcement will be posted tomorrow to c.l.p.a and the packages will be
uploaded on Monday. The web page has to be reworked, but this is left to a
later date.

Best regards,

    Oliver

Chad Netzer <chad at vision.arc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> Compiling python 1.5.2 on Linux Mandrake 6.0,  the "make test" step fails
> because it gets an OverflowError during test_types.py on the following line:

> int(long(-sys.maxint-1))

> test_long.py fails also for the same reason.  I've tried this on another Linux
> setup, using the default system python 1.5.1 compiled with just the straight
> gcc (not egcs or pgcc) and got the same result.  Is this just the expected
> behavior on Linux (in which case maybe the tests should be changed to reflect
> this)  Can I ignore it?  (This doesn't overflow on my SGI, and I assume the
> Pentium uses 2's-complement.  Perhaps this is a glibc issue?)  I should look
> at the code, but I'm sure others must have come across this...

> BTW, as a learning experience, I'm building all of Oliver Andrich's Python
> packages for the Mandrake 6.0 architecture, and will make the results available
> when I'm finished, unless Oliver beats me to the punch and obviates the need.
> Our application depends on getting python installed easily, so I took the initiative.

> Chad Netzer
> chad at vision.arc.nasa.gov




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