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Message73291

Author	henry.precheur
Recipients	henry.precheur
Date	2008-09-16.05:10:00
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Message-id	<1221541852.59.0.453473189868.issue3876@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Compiling `multiprocessing` on OpenBSD fails. `iovec` is not declared. Adding the following line to multiprocessing.c solves the problem: #include <sys/uio.h> But right after I got: ./python:build/lib.openbsd-4.4-amd64-2.6/_multiprocessing.so: undefined symbol 'sem_timedwait' It looks like multiprocessing is using a function that is not defined in OpenBSD and very likely on other BSD's (FreeBSD & NetBSD don't have a man page for this function) According to this page, some other systems don't have this function: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/sem_005ftimedwait.html

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Compiling `multiprocessing` on OpenBSD fails. `iovec` is not declared.

Adding the following line to multiprocessing.c solves the problem:
#include <sys/uio.h>

But right after I got:
./python:build/lib.openbsd-4.4-amd64-2.6/_multiprocessing.so: undefined
symbol 'sem_timedwait'

It looks like multiprocessing is using a function that is not defined in
OpenBSD and very likely on other BSD's (FreeBSD & NetBSD don't have a
man page for this function)

According to this page, some other systems don't have this function:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/sem_005ftimedwait.html

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Date	User	Action	Args
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2008-09-16 05:10:52	henry.precheur	set	messageid: <1221541852.59.0.453473189868.issue3876@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2008-09-16 05:10:00	henry.precheur	create