[Python-Dev] Python 2.6.4rc1

Wed Oct 7 23:09:21 CEST 2009

On Oct 7, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:42, Ronald Oussoren 
> <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
>> On 7 Oct, 2009, at 20:53, Brett Cannon wrote:
>>> I just tried building out of svn and a ton of tests that rely on 
>> urllib failed because the _scproxy module wasn't built and it 
>> unconditionally imports it under darwin. Turns out that it requires 
>> the Mac toolbox glue to be built which I always skip since I don't 
>> care about it.
>>>> I am fairly certain this toolbox glue dependency for urllib is a 
>> regression as I used to always be able to get networking working w/ 
>> o the Mac-specific modules.
>> Bummer. _scproxy was introduced in 2.6.3 to fix a crash in the 
> ctypes based code it replaces, as well as very vague failures in the 
> same code on OSX 10.5 Server on PPC machines.
>> Luckily the fix is easy enough: move some code in setup.py from the 
> block that checks for "not --disable-toolbox-glue", the _scproxy 
> module has no dependencies on the toolbox glue.
>> The attached patch should fix the issue,
>>> Patch fixed it. Barry, can Ronald apply the patch?

Since this is a 2.6.3 regression, yes.
Thanks,
-Barry
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