Example of faulting build: http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/AMD64%20OpenIndiana%203.1/builds/297

Problem: "test_distutils.py" tests the generation of shared libraries. It correctly compile the ".c" to ".o" as 64 bits, but when linking the resulting file object, it tries to link in 32 bits mode, failing miserably.

Manually adding:

"""
--- a/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py    Wed Mar 16 12:48:54 2011 +0200
+++ b/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py    Wed Mar 16 12:14:37 2011 +0000
@@ -251,6 +252,8 @@
                 if sys.platform == 'darwin':
                     linker = _darwin_compiler_fixup(linker, ld_args)
 
+                print("*****************", repr(linker + ld_args))
+                ld_args = ["-m64"]+ld_args
                 self.spawn(linker + ld_args)
             except DistutilsExecError as msg:
                 raise LinkError(msg)

"""

solves the issue.

Notes:

- Python is compiled with this configuration:

  ./configure --with-pydebug --with-computed-gotos "CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/ncursesw -m64" LDFLAGS=-m64

- "test_distutils.py" compilation step works OK, and obey CFLAGS. The command line used is "['gcc', '-I/usr/local/include/ncursesw', '-m64', '-g', '-Wall', '-Wstrict-prototypes', '-fPIC', '-IInclude', '-I/tmp/z/3.1', '-c', '/tmp/tmp8M7aOH/xxmodule.c', '-o', '/tmp/tmp8M7aOH/tmp/tmp8M7aOH/xxmodule.o']".

- "test_distutils.py" linking steps fails. The command line used is "'gcc', '-shared', '/tmp/tmp8M7aOH/tmp/tmp8M7aOH/xxmodule.o', '-o', '/tmp/tmp8M7aOH/xx.so'". It doesn't include the "LDFLAGS" parameter we want.

- Modifying the source code to add a "-m64" to the linking step solved the issue.

- Python 2.7, 3.2 and 3.x works ok.

This patch is hacky, but 3.1 is in maintenance mode.

This patch should be safe. It only touch SunOS compilation. It passes the testsuite, and it should allow 64 bit compilation of extension packages.

This patch is not needed in 3.2 and 3.x. It only affects 3.1.

The patch:

"""
diff -r f2ac5bbc1623 configure.in
--- a/configure.in      Wed Mar 16 12:48:54 2011 +0200
+++ b/configure.in      Wed Mar 16 14:10:53 2011 +0000
@@ -1758,8 +1758,8 @@
        IRIX*/6*) LDSHARED="ld ${SGI_ABI} -shared -all";;
        SunOS/5*) 
                if test "$GCC" = "yes"
-               then LDSHARED='$(CC) -shared'
-               else LDSHARED='$(CC) -G';
+               then LDSHARED='$(CC) -shared $(LDFLAGS)'
+               else LDSHARED='$(CC) -G $(LDFLAGS)';
                fi ;;
        hp*|HP*)
                if test "$GCC" = "yes"
"""

Please, review. If everything is OK, I will commit the patch myself.

Benjamin, could you possibly accept this for 3.1?. It solves a buildbot issue that cold mask othe problems. It seems pretty trivial and safe.

If you approve, I will commit the patch myself.

Thanks.

That should be okay. 3.1 is still open for normal bugfixes.

2011/3/16 Jesús Cea Avión <report@bugs.python.org>:
>
> Jesús Cea Avión <jcea@jcea.es> added the comment:
>
> Benjamin, could you possibly accept this for 3.1?. It solves a buildbot issue that cold mask othe problems. It seems pretty trivial and safe.
>
> If you approve, I will commit the patch myself.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ----------
> assignee:  -> jcea
> nosy: +benjamin.peterson
>
> _______________________________________
> Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org>
> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11570>
> _______________________________________
>

New changeset d108a7dff2a0 by Jesus Cea in branch '3.1':
Close Issue 11570: Lib/test/test_distutils.py tries to mix 32 and 64 bits object files, doesn't obey LDFLAGS
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d108a7dff2a0