From: Mark Geisert <mark@maxrnd.com>
To: Cygwin-Apps <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Failure during build of Python 3.8 via cygport
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:52:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <758d2138-587b-2970-6c35-69d5c655a598@maxrnd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.63.2012112223120.53260@m0.truegem.net>
Mark Geisert wrote:
> This seems to be a problem setting up a platform-specific build directory. The
> sysconfig.py script wants to use "lib." + platform + pythonversion but the
> platform string somehow gets corrupted into non-utf8 bytes. For instance,
> building Python 3.8 comes up with:
> lib.cygwin-\365\377\377o-\377o-3.8
> as the directory name. Broken, but could work. The build failure happens because
> the script tries to write this directory name into a file but it's not a valid
> utf8 string. The directory name should have been:
> lib.cygwin-3.2.0-x86_64-3.8
And the corruption is due to something about a recent change to the operation of
Cygwin's uname() function. The change was introduced in Cygwin API version 335;
I'm running 340 on my test machine. This being a fairly recent change might
possibly explain why nobody else has run into this issue yet.
Basically, os.uname within Python is calling Cygwin's uname() passing the address
of a buffer declared to be 'struct utsname'. The structure layout changed in API
335. What I've hit is a mismatch between what Python expects and Cygwin delivers.
I'll move this discussion over to the developers list tomorrow.
..mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-13 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-09 8:14 Mark Geisert
2020-12-12 6:33 ` Mark Geisert
2020-12-13 8:52 ` Mark Geisert [this message]
2020-12-13 14:34 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-12-13 21:59 ` Brian Inglis
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