On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 at 08:10 tdsmith <tim at brew.sh> wrote: > Hi python-dev! I'm a maintainer for Homebrew, a third-party package > manager for OS X, where I'm the resident parseltongue. > > Issue 10910 is related to problems building CPython extension modules > with C++ code on BSDs. As I understand it, pyport.h has some code > specific to BSD and friends, including OS X, which causes conflicts > with the C++ stdlib. > > We've been carrying the patch Ronald Oussoren wrote in 2011 [2] > against Python 2.7 since olden times. We were recently prompted to add > the patch to our 3.5 package as well [3] because the bug was causing > build problems in the wild. [4] > > We strive to apply as few patches as possible in Homebrew and we (I) > would love to see a fix for this deployed upstream. Can I do anything > to help code get checked in? > The trick is someone feeling up to the task of knowing enough C, C++, and what's happening on OS X/BSD to validate the patch and apply it. Usually that's Ronald or Ned and Ronald never applied his patch, so I guess that leaves Ned. :) If Ned doesn't have the time to look then just ping the issue in a week and I will apply it since both you and FreeBSD are already carrying the patch forward. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20160808/c67f766e/attachment.html>
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