Bug 286943 – python-2.6.2-r2 lacks alloca.h check

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo/Alt

[Description Michael Yang 2009-09-29 15:21:31 UTC]

FreeBSD doesn't come with /usr/include alloca.h which affects ctypes compilation

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge =dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r2
Actual Results:  
_ctypes.c:129:20: error: alloca.h: No such file or directory

Expected Results:  
success

[Comment 1 Michael Yang 2009-09-29 15:21:54 UTC]

Created attachment 205602 [details, diff]
ebuild patch for python-2.6.2-r2

[Comment 2 Michael Yang 2009-09-29 15:28:06 UTC]

Created attachment 205604 [details, diff]
ctypes patch for FreeBSD without alloca.h

put into files directory

[Comment 3 Fabian Groffen 2009-09-29 15:57:17 UTC]

do I understand the patch correctly that they just disabled the guards for some messed up reason?

[Comment 4 Fabian Groffen 2009-09-29 15:58:40 UTC]

hehe, this is introduced by the IRIX patch, so we need to beat someone with a stick here

[Comment 5 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2009-09-29 16:00:50 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> hehe, this is introduced by the IRIX patch, so we need to beat someone with a
> stick here
> 

patch fixing another patch, yay!

[Comment 6 Fabian Groffen 2009-09-29 16:11:04 UTC]

I just committed a fix to the irix patch which makes configure check for alloca.h such that the guards can be enabled and it should also work fine on FreeBSD.  Can't check that theory though.

[Comment 7 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2009-09-30 14:39:25 UTC]

reopen if it doesn't work (based on last comment)