Python support with FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE

[greg andruk]

At 11:01 AM 3/20/2002 -0800, Javier Henderson wrote:
>greg andruk writes:
>
>  > What kinds of errors?  What Python version?  Did you build your own
>  > interpreter of grab it from ports?  Inquiring minds want to know.
>
>Python built from the ports, version 2.1.2. See below for the errors.


>/usr/local/lib/python2.1/config/libpython2.1.a(posixmodule.o): In function 
>`posix_
>tempnam':
>posixmodule.o(.text+0x253e): warning: tempnam() possibly used unsafely; 
>consider u
>sing mkstemp()

This part is harmless, just Python exposing these functions in its API.


>/usr/local/lib/python2.1/config/libpython2.1.a(thread.o): In function 
>`PyThread_st
>art_new_thread':
>thread.o(.text+0x4a): undefined reference to `pthread_create'
>thread.o(.text+0x5e): undefined reference to `pthread_detach'

*groan* Time to visit autoconfig hell again, I guess.  Patch on Sunday 
unless something amazing happens and there's free time before that.