[issue4204] Cannot build _multiprocessing, math, mmap and readline of Python 2.6 on FreeBSD 4.11 w/ gcc 2.95.4

[Akira Kitada]

Akira Kitada <akitada at gmail.com> added the comment:

Attached patch fixes build problem of math and mmap.
Apparently, FreeBSD 4 does not make some math functions available when
_XOPEN_SOURCE is defined and unlike newer FreeBSD, it cannot be fixed 
with __BSD_VISIBLE macro.

As for readline, it just because
FreeBSD's readline does not have erl_compentry_func_t and Python 2.6
started to use it. When I cp Python-2.5.2/Modules/readline.c
Python-2.6/Modules/readline.c, it built successfully.
Probably this is not a good fix. I would be glad if someone suggests me
a better one.

Lastly, multiprocessing.
First I needed a patch like this to get rid of the warnings.

"""
--- Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.h.orig     Tue Oct 14
14:43:01 2008
+++ Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.h  Tue Oct 14 14:48:59 2008
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@
 #  define SEM_VALUE_MAX LONG_MAX
 #else
 #  include <fcntl.h>                 /* O_CREAT and O_EXCL */
+#  include <netinet/in.h>
 #  include <sys/socket.h>
+#  include <arpa/inet.h>
+#  include <sys/uio.h>
 #  include <arpa/inet.h>             /* htonl() and ntohl() */
 #  if HAVE_SEM_OPEN
 #    include <semaphore.h>
"""

With this patch applied, I tried the build again and got the following
error.

"""
running build
running build_ext
INFO: Can't locate Tcl/Tk libs and/or headers
building '_multiprocessing' extension
gcc -pthread -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -DHAVE_SEM_OPEN=1 -DHAVE_FD_TRANSFER=1
-DHAVE_SEM_TIMEDWAIT=1 -IModules/_multiprocessing -I.
-I/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/./Include -I. -IInclude -I./Include
-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/Include
-I/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6 -c
/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.c -o
build/temp.freebsd-4.11-RELEASE-i386-2.6/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.o
gcc -pthread -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -DHAVE_SEM_OPEN=1 -DHAVE_FD_TRANSFER=1
-DHAVE_SEM_TIMEDWAIT=1 -IModules/_multiprocessing -I.
-I/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/./Include -I. -IInclude -I./Include
-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/Include
-I/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6 -c
/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/socket_connection.c
-o
build/temp.freebsd-4.11-RELEASE-i386-2.6/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/socket_connection.o
In file included from
/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/socket_connection.c:190:
/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/connection.h: In
function `connection_new':
/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/connection.h:51:
warning: unknown conversion type character `z' in format
/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/connection.h: In
function `connection_repr':
/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/connection.h:401: warning:
unknown conversion type character `z' in format
gcc -pthread -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -DHAVE_SEM_OPEN=1 -DHAVE_FD_TRANSFER=1
-DHAVE_SEM_TIMEDWAIT=1 -IModules/_multiprocessing -I.
-I/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/./Include -I. -IInclude -I./Include
-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/Include
-I/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6 -c
/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/semaphore.c -o
build/temp.freebsd-4.11-RELEASE-i386-2.6/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/semaphore.o
/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/semaphore.c: In
function `semlock_acquire':
/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/semaphore.c:314:
warning: implicit declaration of function `sem_timedwait'
gcc -shared
build/temp.freebsd-4.11-RELEASE-i386-2.6/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.o
build/temp.freebsd-4.11-RELEASE-i386-2.6/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/socket_connection.o
build/temp.freebsd-4.11-RELEASE-i386-2.6/usr/home/build/dev/Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/semaphore.o
-L/usr/local/lib -o
build/lib.freebsd-4.11-RELEASE-i386-2.6/_multiprocessing.so
*** WARNING: renaming "_multiprocessing" since importing it failed:
build/lib.freebsd-4.11-RELEASE-i386-2.6/_multiprocessing.so: Undefined
symbol "sem_timedwait"
"""

Yes, sem_timedwait is not supported on FreeBSD 4.
I would like to find the replacement for that, 
but I'm not sure how I could solve this at this time.

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components: +Build
keywords: +patch
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11890/configure.in.diff

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