Re: [Pyobjc-dev] libffi on OSX 10.1

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Sunday, May 4, 2003, at 22:40 Europe/Amsterdam, Ronald Oussoren  
wrote:

> I got bored and installed 10.1.5 and the December 2001 developer tools  
> on a spare partition. I then tried to build python and pyobjc. The  
> former mostly succeeded (more on that on the MacPython list), but I  
> ran into some problems with pyobjc.
>
> First of all libffi won't build, seemingly due to a compiler bug:

I was too pessimistic, libffi does build it is just the libffi test  
program that won't build. If I work around that I can build PyObjC with  
libffi support.

Some unittests now pass, but most crash like this:

Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
0x7081f0d4 in hashStr ()
(gdb) where
#0  0x7081f0d4 in hashStr ()
#1  0x701cee88 in __CFDictionaryFindBuckets1b ()
#2  0x70161d1c in CFDictionaryGetValue ()
#3  0x7081d154 in +[NSMethodSignature signatureWithObjCTypes:] ()
#4  0x00260310 in objcsel_descr_get (meth=0x8dc5e8, obj=0x0,  
class=0xbfffc218) at Modules/objc/selector.m:718
#5  0x10043710 in type_getattro (type=0x92f9e0, name=0x83dda0) at  
Objects/typeobject.c:2006
#6  0x0025d17c in class_getattro (self=0x92f9e0, name=0x83dda0) at  
Modules/objc/objc-class.m:421
#7  0x1003398c in PyObject_GetAttr (v=0x92f9e0, name=0x83dda0) at  
Objects/object.c:1241
...

test_nsnumber fails because of a change in the header of plist files:
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "Lib/Foundation/test/test_nsnumber.py", line 107, in  
testPropertyList1
     self.assertEquals(data, PLIST)
   File  
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/ 
unittest.py", line 292, in failUnlessEqual
     raise self.failureException, \
AssertionError: '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n<!DOCTYPE  
plist SYSTEM  
"file://localhost/System/Library/DTDs/PropertyList.dtd">\n<plist  
version="0.9">\n<dict>\n\t<key>bool</key>\n\t<true/>\n\t<key>plain</ 
key>\n\t<integer>1</integer>\n</dict>\n</plist>\n' != '<?xml  
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple  
Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"  
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">\n<plist  
version="1.0">\n<dict>\n\t<key>bool</key>\n\t<true/>\n\t<key>plain</ 
key>\n\t<integer>1</integer>\n</dict>\n</plist>\n'