[py-dev] Problems compiling greenlets under MacOSX 10.3.7

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 9, 2005, at 4:18, holger krekel wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:44 +0000, Valentino Volonghi aka Dialtone 
> wrote:
>> I would like to compile greenlets on darwin but
>> unfortunately I only get an error from the assembler.
>
> I nagged Armin about this yesterday :-)  And Bob even seems to know the
> underlying cause.  Great.  I guess we need to provide Armin 
> online-access
> to an OSX machine with recent tools.  Apparently he has no problems
> compiling greenlets on an older version of OSX.

Older version of GCC.  As I said before, this is a GCC bug :)

> Can anyone provide an account on an OSX machine that is online
> all the time?  This would also be great when we (soon) start
> to extend py.test to support interactively running tests on
> multiple platforms. The same goes for a windows-machine: if
> anyone can provide 24-hour online access to a win32 box with
> an sshd that would be really helpful.

I'm almost certain that the greenlets code is using an old header file 
from Stackless, and it needs to be replaced with a newer one.  It 
doesn't really take access to OS X to make sure that these are in sync 
:)

-bob