Python-2.2.1c1 Build Problems on Linux and AIX.

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Skip,

> > With Python-2.2.1c1, I find `make test' fails on my old version of
> > Linux/x86 and it fails to build on an also old version of AIX.
> > Should I go straight to SourceForge and fill in bug forms or do
> > people tend to discuss the problems here first?
> >
> > I can see the problem with the AIX build.  Linux SIGSEGVs in
> > test_calendar on a call to strftime.
> 
> The strftime call in calendar.py is a bit abusive, so it's not
> entirely surprising to me that you're seeing problems.  This test
> succeeds for me on my Mandrake system.  Can you run the
> test_calendar.py script manually and submit a SF bug report (assign
> it to "montanaro")?  A debugger traceback would be helpful as well.

I've found this in README.

    On some Linux systems (those that are not yet using glibc 6),
    test_strftime fails due to a non-standard implementation of
    strftime() in the C library. Please ignore this, or upgrade to
    glibc version 6.

I guess that applies to me.

    local$ ldd python
            libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40004000)
            libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40007000)
            libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x40014000)
            libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40018000)
            libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40031000)
            /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00000000)
    local$ rpm -qf /lib/libc.so.6
    glibc-2.0.7-29

> Does the AIX version of strftime support %a, %A, %b and %B formats?

I expect so.  But the AIX problem is in building python so I don't get
as far as `make test'.

Cheers,


Ralph.