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authorBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>2002-10-14 18:04:39 (GMT)
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There was a typo in the MacOSX section regarding the stacksize issue.
There's no limit command near as I can tell. Should be the bash builtin ulimit command.
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@@ -455,10 +455,11 @@ Reliant UNIX: The thread support does not compile on Reliant UNIX, and
platform as well. This should be resolved in time for a
future release.
-Mac OS X 10: One of the regular expression tests fails with a segmentation
- violation (SIGSEGV) due to the small stack size used by default,
- if you give the command "limit stacksize 2048" before "make test"
- it should work.
+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.
On naked Darwin you may want to add the configure option
"--disable-toolbox-glue" to disable the glue code for the Carbon