Hi 
we are facing "checking size of size_t error" in building python2.6
checking size of size_t... configure: error: in `/var/tmp/python_build/Python-2.6.8':
configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (size_t). Is there any fix for this issue or anysolution

Have you tried with Python 2.7?

I have not tried with Python2.7.
Our requirement that we need python2.6.
If you have any idea or clue for this issue 
Regards
Shilpi

Can you provide more information about your operating system/platform?
Python 2.6 only receives security fixes, so even if it's a bug it can't be fixed there (it could be fixed on 2.7 though).

Hi ,
Currently we are using thi version
cat /etc/release
                   Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 s10s_u10wos_17b SPARC
  Copyright (c) 1983, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
                            Assembled 23 August 2011
Regards
Shilpi
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To: Shilpi Singh (WT01 - GMT-Telecom Equipment)
Subject: [issue17344] checking size of size_t... configure: error:

Ezio Melotti added the comment:

Can you provide more information about your operating system/platform?
Python 2.6 only receives security fixes, so even if it's a bug it can't be fixed there (it could be fixed on 2.7 though).

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The SPARC Solaris buildbot with cc compilers run configure without problems, whereas the ones with gcc are broken because of gcc (and they don't even reach the configure step that checks for size_t).
If we cannot confirm that there is a problem on a currently maintained version of Python I'm afraid I'll have to close this issue.

Shilpi, can you paste the exact ./configure invocation you're using?

I was brought here by google searching for the same issue.

My system is MAC OSX 10.6.8 with gcc version 4.2.1.
I downloaded Python-2.7.3 and used the following configure command:

/configure --enable-framework --enable-universalsdk --with-universal-archs=intel

and received the same error:

checking size of size_t... configure: error: in `/Users/phsiao/dev/Python-2.7.3-universal':
configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (size_t)
See `config.log' for more details

Joe, there are many reasons for seeing configure errors like that and they are almost always platform-specific.  Ones seen on OS X are unlikely to be related to ones seen on Solaris so they should be covered in separate issues.  In your case, --enable-universalsdk with no arguments means to use the OS X 10.4u SDK which does not support 64-bit builds ("intel").  As described in Mac/README, you need to specify --enable-universalsdk=/ to use the command-line-tool installed headers on your system or --enable-universalsdk=/path/to/SDK to use a specific Xcode-installed SDK.  Also it is best to explicitly include MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6 (or whatever) in the ./configure arguments.

Thanks, Ned. What you suggested is working.
Apologize not seeing the Mac folder.