Re: Re: Error on linux

Thomas Heller <theller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Andrew MacIntyre <Andrew.MacIntyre@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> I seem to recall that Redhat 9 & Fedora may be using UCS-4 by default. 
>> Have no idea about other Linux distros.
>>
>> I would also think that there's something wrong with the configure tests 
>> that lead to the HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T symbol - I'm quite surprised that 
>> Thomas is not finding this defined on his Linux systems, and I'll try 
>> and check my FreeBSD systems over the weekend.
>
> Thanks foe the heads up, Andrew.
> Well, I tried it again: Suse linux 9.0, gcc 3.3.1.
> My python2.3+ pyconfig.h has '/* #undef HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T */'.
>
> Got Python from cvs, 'cd python/dist/src', './configure',
> and pyconfig.h still contains '/* #undef HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T */'.

But the good news is - it doesn't matter.  I posted a mssage to
python-dev about my finding when grepping through the sources - ctypes
should use HAVE_WCHAR_H, or maybe Py_UNICODE_SIZE, to customize the
unicode support.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-October/049275.html

Thomas



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