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authorBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>2002-10-14 18:15:35 (GMT)
committerBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>2002-10-14 18:15:35 (GMT)
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I'd forgotten that tcsh was the default for 10.1, but SF's 10.1 system
uses bash and so does my 10.2 system. "limit stacksize 2048" is the right invocation for tcsh/csh.
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@@ -456,10 +456,11 @@ Reliant UNIX: The thread support does not compile on Reliant UNIX, and
future release.
MacOSX: The tests will crash on both 10.1 and 10.2 with SEGV in
- test_re and test_sre due to the small default stack size. Do
- "ulimit -s 2048" before "make test" to avoid the failure.
- Note that this is a built-in bash command so if you're using a
- different shell, the command may be different too.
+ test_re and test_sre due to the small default stack size. If
+ you set the stack size to 2048 before doing a "make test" the
+ failure can be avoided. If you're using the tcsh (the default
+ on OSX), or csh shells use "limit stacksize 2048" and for the
+ bash shell, use "ulimit -s 2048".
On naked Darwin you may want to add the configure option
"--disable-toolbox-glue" to disable the glue code for the Carbon