Re: lang/python33 fails building _decimal extension

["J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 01:16:41PM -0500, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Building lang/python33 fails for me.  It fails while building the
> _decimal extension.  If I download the source tarball from python.org
> and build outside of pkgsrc, it fails in the same way, so it's likely
> not a pkgsrc-specific problem.  Also, lang/python32 builds OK for me.
> 
> This is on RHEL 5.9 (x86_64) with GCC 4.1.2.
> 
> I did the following:
> 
> $ cd ~/pkgsrc/lang/python33
> $ bmake install clean clean-depends

Hello.

Well, based on some Web searches, I started wondering if maybe the
problem was a bug in GCC.  I tried again on RHEL 6.4 (x86_64) with GCC
4.4.7, and lang/python33 builds fine.  So, forget about this problem; it
works OK for me on a newer machine.

Thanks,

Lewis