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Author henry.precheur
Recipients henry.precheur
Date 2008-09-16.05:10:00
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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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