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The Linux2 platform definition is incorrect for alpha, hppa, mips, sparc #48240

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ths mannequin opened this issue Sep 28, 2008 · 5 comments
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The Linux2 platform definition is incorrect for alpha, hppa, mips, sparc #48240

ths mannequin opened this issue Sep 28, 2008 · 5 comments
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easy stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error

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ths mannequin commented Sep 28, 2008

BPO 3990
Nosy @loewis, @doko42, @jwilk, @merwok, @stefanor, @zware
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  • bpo-12619: Automatically regenerate platform-specific modules
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  • bpo-28027: Remove Lib/plat-/ files
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  • linux2-plat-upstream.diff: Patch for this Bug
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title = 'The Linux2 platform definition is incorrect for alpha, hppa, mips, sparc'
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    ths mannequin commented Sep 28, 2008

    The linux2 platform definition is incorrect for several architectures,
    namely Alpha, PA-RISC(hppa), MIPS and SPARC. On these architectures,
    Linux inherited some of the socket and dlfcn constants from the
    proprietary OS provided by the hardware manufacturer, which means they
    differ from the usual Linux constants.

    The appended patch against current SVN adresses this by introducing
    linux2-alpha, linux2-hppa, linux2-mips and linux2-sparc platforms.

    I changed only the incorrect constants on each platform and kept
    everything else the same.

    Bugs in the Debian Bugtracker related to this problem are:
    http://bugs.debian.org/499132
    http://bugs.debian.org/500383
    http://bugs.debian.org/500417
    http://bugs.debian.org/500418

    The first two bug reports carry patches for Python 2.5 and Python 2.4,
    respectively.

    The patch probably fixes also spurious python segfaults seen on the
    Debian Autobuilders for MIPS, since the RTLD_* constants for dlopen were
    incorrect. (That said, those segfaults are hard to reproduce, so this is
    a somewhat speculative conclusion.)

    @ths ths mannequin added stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error labels Sep 28, 2008
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    loewis mannequin commented Sep 28, 2008

    I dislike the brute-force approach of this patch. IMO, a less intrusive
    solution should be found.

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    merwok commented Oct 18, 2011

    If we keep the plat-* directories, I think too that introducing new sys.platform values seems a bit heavy-handed.

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    merwok commented Nov 2, 2011

    A proposal by Martin in a python-dev email:

    I'd generate four versions of CDROM.py (with differing names), and
    provide a CDROM.py that imports the right one.

    @merwok merwok added the easy label Nov 2, 2011
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    zware commented Sep 9, 2016

    The platform-specific modules have been removed.

    @zware zware closed this as completed Sep 9, 2016
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