[issue6937] multiprocessing lock on OS X Snow Leopard dumps core

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: To build universal build of Python use "--enable-universalsdk" or "-- enable-universalsdk=/" (the former defaults to the 10.4 SDK, which doesn't support a 64-bit build). You can then use the "--with- universal-archs" option to select the type of build you wan

[issue6937] multiprocessing lock on OS X Snow Leopard dumps core

aaditya sood added the comment: Ronald, if you can also put the magic incantations on a wiki page somewhere it'd really help me out. I can then download 2.6.2 and build it for snow leopard. I can put up a downloadable version for other people if needed. I'm assuming this will bite a lot of pe

[issue6937] multiprocessing lock on OS X Snow Leopard dumps core

Jesse Noller added the comment: Ronald, could you email me the incantation for a full-on 64 bit build, I'll double check this on 26-maint. I just forget the magic build flags all the time. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue6937] multiprocessing lock on OS X Snow Leopard dumps core

Changes by Ronald Oussoren : -- assignee: jnoller -> ronaldoussoren ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscrib

[issue6937] multiprocessing lock on OS X Snow Leopard dumps core

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Jesse: Apple can fix their own copy of python (which is 2.6.1), I was more worried about the upcoming 2.6.3 release. I'll file a bug with Apple and poke their Python maintainer once 2.6.3 is released. -- ___ Pyt

[issue6937] multiprocessing lock on OS X Snow Leopard dumps core

Jesse Noller added the comment: AFAIK: Tim is correct. Unfortunately, this has already been fixed - as much as it kills me, there's not much I can do to fix this for Snow Leopard. -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue6937] multiprocessing lock on OS X Snow Leopard dumps core

Tim Golden added the comment: Don't know what exact release OS X ships with, but it looks like you're being bitten by this: http://bugs.python.org/issue5261 -- nosy: +tim.golden ___ Python tracker

[issue6937] multiprocessing lock on OS X Snow Leopard dumps core

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Jesse: is this something you can look into? This is a crash of multiprocessing on MacOSX 10.6 with a 64-bit build of python. -- assignee: ronaldoussoren -> jnoller nosy: +jnoller ___ Python tracker

[issue6937] multiprocessing lock on OS X Snow Leopard dumps core

Ned Deily added the comment: Reproducible here. Fails with Apple 2.6.1 in 64-bit mode but *not* in 32-bit mode. Also does not fail on 10.6 with recent 64-bit 4-way trunk built on 10.5. $ arch -i386 /usr/bin/python2.6 Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jul 7 2009, 23:51:51) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. b

[issue6937] multiprocessing lock on OS X Snow Leopard dumps core

aaditya sood added the comment: Additional Info: Snow Leopard is shipping with Python 2.6.1 64 bit build. -- type: -> crash ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue6937] multiprocessing lock on OS X Snow Leopard dumps core

New submission from aaditya sood : On a Snow Leopard system, doing this core dumps: import multiprocessing lck1=multiprocessing.Lock() with lck1: print "foo" The stack trace: Process: Python [23100] Path: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Resource