Re: [matplotlib-devel] compiling on Solaris (and going against the python API)

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:

> Before making that change, I verified that at least on my linux system,
> Python.h defines those two variables the same way that features.h does,
> so the redefinition would be harmless if we did not undefine the
> variables. I don't think we are any worse off than before with respect
> to linux, and we should be better off with respect to other
> platforms--mpl on Solaris now compiles, right?.  But I am certainly
> still not comfortable with the whole setjmp mess.  I would love to see
> someone come up with a clean, clearly understandable solution, and
> resolve it once and for all.

One more test point -- on my solaris x86 box running python2.4, svn
HEAD (and r8707) appear to work fine.

johnh@udesktop191:tests> uname -a
SunOS udesktop191 5.10 Generic_139556-08 i86pc i386 i86pc
johnh@udesktop191:tests> python -V
Python 2.4.5
johnh@udesktop191:tests> /opt/app/g++lib6/gcc-4.2/bin/gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.2.2