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I tried building this on my Mac and got this;
ar cr libpython2.7.a Python/_warnings.o Python/Python-ast.o Python/ 
asdl.o Python/ast.o Python/bltinmodule.o Python/ceval.o Python/ 
compile.o Python/codecs.o Python/errors.o Python/frozen.o Python/ 
frozenmain.o Python/future.o Python/getargs.o Python/getcompiler.o 
Python/getcopyright.o Python/getplatform.o Python/getversion.o Python/ 
graminit.o Python/import.o Python/importdl.o Python/marshal.o Python/ 
modsupport.o Python/mystrtoul.o Python/mysnprintf.o Python/peephole.o 
Python/pyarena.o Python/pyfpe.o Python/pymath.o Python/pystate.o 
Python/pythonrun.o Python/structmember.o Python/symtable.o Python/ 
sysmodule.o Python/traceback.o Python/getopt.o Python/pystrcmp.o 
Python/pystrtod.o Python/formatter_unicode.o Python/formatter_string.o 
Python/dynload_shlib.o @DTRACEOBJS@ Python/mactoolboxglue.o Python/ 
thread.o
ar: @DTRACEOBJS@: No such file or directory
make: *** [libpython2.7.a] Error 1
my configure line was:
./configure --enable-framework --enable-toolbox-glue --with-threads -- 
enable-dtrace
On Jan 25, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
> Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> added the comment:
>
> Here's a patch against the current trunk (2.7) which compiles on my 
> Mac. It
> adds a --with-dtrace configure option. The code checks to see if 
> the -G
> option is understood by the dtrace command. If so, dtrace support 
> is added
> Sun-style. If not we do things Apple's way.
>
> The existing test cases pass on Apple except for one case in 
> test_sys which
> tries to confirm the size of a frame object. I added an #ifdef 
> WITH_DTRACE
> around the extra slot but there is no way of telling from Python 
> code that
> this extra slot is there. That would have to somehow be exposed to 
> the
> Python programmer so the test can be adjusted. All tests pass when
> --with-dtrace is omitted. I have not yet tried this on Solaris. I 
> will try
> to get to it this week if someone doesn't beat me to it.
>
> There are as yet no new dtrace test cases so I can't confirm that 
> the added
> dtrace support actually works. There are also no documentation 
> updates.
> Unlike most compile options this adds a significant new feature to the
> runtime environment so some documentation changes are probably 
> called for.
>
> Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12861/dtrace.diff
>
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