Re: [Python-Dev] report on building of python 2.5.2 under msys under wine on linux.

2009-01-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> About 5 test fail in emulated environment due bugs in emulator. oh - nearly forgot: several of the ctypes tests fail quite spectacularly :) ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscrib

Re: [Python-Dev] report on building of python 2.5.2 under msys under wine on linux.

2009-01-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
hiya roumen, good to hear from you - i've been merging in the work that you did, on mingw native-and-cross compiles. got a couple of questions, will post them in the bugreport ok? On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Roumen Petrov wrote: > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > [SNIP] >> >> i'm going

Re: [Python-Dev] report on building of python 2.5.2 under msys under wine on linux.

2009-01-17 Thread Roumen Petrov
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: [SNIP] i'm going to _try_ to merge in #3871 but it's... the prospect of sitting waiting for configure to take THREE hours to complete, due to /bin/sh.exe instances taking TWO SECONDS _each_ to start up does not really fill me with deep joy. As from version 1.

Re: [Python-Dev] report on building of python 2.5.2 under msys under wine on linux.

2009-01-15 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> practical decision, due to /bin/sh.exe messing around and stopping > python.exe from running! (under cmd.exe it's fine. i have to do a > bit more investigation: http://bugs.python.org/issue4956 found it. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python

Re: [Python-Dev] report on building of python 2.5.2 under msys under wine on linux.

2009-01-15 Thread Aahz
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > p.s. if anyone would like to try out this build, on a windows box, to > see if it fares any better on the regression tests please say so and i > will make the binaries available. Don't bother on my account, but please publicize the URL

[Python-Dev] report on building of python 2.5.2 under msys under wine on linux.

2009-01-15 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
no, the above subject-line is not a joke: i really _have_ successfully built python2.5.2 by installing wine on linux, then msys under wine, and then mingw32 compiler - no, not the linux mingw32-cross-compiler, the _native_ mingw32 compiler that runs under msys, and then hacking things into submissi