Python 2.7.8

[Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński]

2014-09-10 14:22 GMT+01:00 Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>:
>
> I just bumped Python to 2.7.8, feel free to give it a try:
>   http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/experimental.html#python27

I recently received an email from a user. I haven't done anything
about it, but it might be a good time to look into it:

> Hi Maciej,
> Thank you for creating CSWpython27.  I have an old V240 system from 2006 that was in desperate need of updating and the CSW packages, expecially python was what i was very happy to find.
> I notice however that CSWpython27 package bundles the compiled curses dynamic libs disabled (they are included as _curses_failed.so and _curses_panel_failed.so).  The modules get named with _failed if they are missing a dependency somewhere, as you may already know.  The dependency was on function unctrl, which seems to only be available in ncurses but not being used because Python was instead compiling against the system curses library instead.
> I downloaded the Python-2.7.6.tar.xz source code and was able to get them to compile manually by including -DHAVE_NCURSES_H and then the modules loaded and were not renamed to failed.
> The package looks like it already has a dependency CSWncurses (i have version 5.9,REV=2011.11.21 installed), but the compilation of Python doesn\'t seem to pick up/use that, so it needed a little help.
> When you are next going to package python 2.7.x (i\'m hoping for 2.7.8 since i just like to be on the bleeding edge), i am hoping the above is helpful to get the Python suite packaged with all modules intact (e.g. with no _failed modules bundled).
> The following are the commands i used manually to compile the two modules by hand:
> gcc -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DHAVE_NCURSES_H -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I. -IInclude -I./Include -I/opt/csw/include/ncurses -I/home/cynikal/patch/Python-2.7.6/Include -I/home/cynikal/patch/Python-2.7.6 -c /home/cynikal/patch/Python-2.7.6/Modules/_cursesmodule.c -o build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u.32bit-2.7/home/cynikal/patch/Python-2.7.6/Modules/_cursesmodule.o
> gcc -shared build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u.32bit-2.7/home/cynikal/patch/Python-2.7.6/Modules/_cursesmodule.o -L/opt/csw/lib -lncurses -o build/lib.solaris-2.10-sun4u.32bit-2.7/_curses.so
> gcc -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DHAVE_NCURSES_H -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I. -IInclude -I./Include -I/opt/csw/include/ncurses -I/home/cynikal/patch/Python-2.7.6/Include -I/home/cynikal/patch/Python-2.7.6 -c /home/cynikal/patch/Python-2.7.6/Modules/_curses_panel.c -o build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u.32bit-2.7/home/cynikal/patch/Python-2.7.6/Modules/_curses_panel.o
> gcc -shared build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u.32bit-2.7/home/cynikal/patch/Python-2.7.6/Modules/_curses_panel.o -L/opt/csw/lib -lpanel -lncurses -o build/lib.solaris-2.10-sun4u.32bit-2.7/_curses_panel.so
> (i then manually copied the build/lib.solaris-2.10-sun4u.32bit-2.7/_*so to /opt/csw/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload )
> Hope this helps!