Re: Silly warnings from python-SunOS-5.8-sun4d-fafner

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 12:21:18PM +0100, Michael Hudson wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Anders Qvist wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:43:51AM +0100, Michael Hudson wrote:
> > > Anders Qvist <[email protected]> writes:
> > > 
> > > > The file also has its atime updated by a make command, so it's likely
> > > > to be used.
> > > > 
> > > >   #ifdef _AIX
> > > >   extern int fdatasync(int);
> > > >   #endif
> > > > 
> > > > ... solves the problem, but isn't very beautiful. 
> > > 
> > > Can you try this patch? (+ associated changes to configure &
> > > pyconfig.h.in, which I can send you if they're hard for you to
> > > generate).
> > 
> > Can't find a machine with autoconf/automake that mounts the disk, so a
> > "full" patch would be appreciated. 
> 
> Here you go.
> 
> > I'll have to take care of that, but that will take some time.
> 
> Probably a good idea in the long run.  Is it a goal of the snake-farm to 
> be able to test patches out before commiting them to CVS?

I've been thinking of having a dir where one can put patches to apply
after cvs updates.

Our goal is to produce a python that works on as many platforms as is
possible. If there are patches that are likely to break the build on
some platforms, of course we'll do our best to try them out. We can
always start the build manually.

[snip]

Results of patch coming later.

-- 
Anders "Quest" Qvist

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