[PyKDE] Re: PyKDE-3.16.0, python-2.5, x86_64

[Phil Thompson]

On Thursday 14 December 2006 6:49 pm, Jim Bublitz wrote:
> On Thursday 14 December 2006 05:32, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > I'm having trouble getting PyKDE_3.16.0 to build against python-2.5 on
> > > x86_64 arch.  Before I dig any deeper, has anyone else had any
> > > success/failure doing the same?
> >
> > For completeness, here are the logs for the failed build:
> > http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/logs/fedora-development-extras/23309-Py
> >KD E-3.16.0-5.fc7.1/x86_64/
>
> The problem is with the Py_ssize_t type in Python 2.5
>
> In an earlier post, Simon Edwards recommended this:
>
> -----------------------------
>
> This email contains some recommendations for dealing with this:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-September/068944.html
>
> Basically convert the ints to Py_ssize_t, and then typedef a Py_ssize_t for
> compatibility with Python 2.4. Pretty straight forward.
>
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In SIP v4.5.2 I added SIP_SSIZE_T to the SIP API to handle this automatically. 
(It was previously called _SIP_SSIZE_T and internal to SIP.)

Phil