[Python-Dev] [ANN] Python 2.3.7 and 2.4.5, release candidate 1

["Martin v. Löwis"]

>> Assuming no major problems crop up, a final release of Python 2.4.4 will
>> follow in about a week's time.
> 
> I do suppose you mean 2.4.5.

Oops, yes.

> 2.4.5 won't build for me from the svn checkout on Mac OS X 10.5.2:
> 
> gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp 
> -mno-fused-madd -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I. 
> -I./Include  -DPy_BUILD_CORE  -c ./Modules/posixmodule.c -o 
> Modules/posixmodule.o
> ./Modules/posixmodule.c: In function ‘posix_setpgrp’:
> ./Modules/posixmodule.c:3145: error: too few arguments to function 
> ‘setpgrp’
> make: *** [Modules/posixmodule.o] Error 1
> 
> I can only presume I'm doing something wrong at this point, since I 
> don't consider myself a Mac OS X developer.

No. 2.4.5 just won't compile on OSX 10.5.2. This bug has been fixed for
2.5 (IIUC), but the fix was not backported (nor should it be, as it
is not relevant for security). Use OS X 10.4 if you want to use Python
2.4.

Regards,
Martin