musl libc and gnu libc are not ABI compatible so we need set different
SOABI for musl and not simply assume that all linux is linux-gnu.
Replace linux-gnu with the detected os for the build from config.guess
for linux-musl*.
When Python is built without --enable-shared, the "python" program is
now linked to object files, rather than being linked to the Python
library (libpython.a), to make sure that all symbols are exported.
Previously, the linker omitted some symbols like the Py_FrozenMain()
function.
When Python is configured with --without-static-libpython, the Python
static library (libpython.a) is no longer built.
* Check --without-static-libpython earlier in configure.ac
* Add LINK_PYTHON_OBJS and LINK_PYTHON_DEPS variables to Makefile.
* test_capi now ensures that the "Py_FrozenMain" symbol is exported.
The build system now uses a :program:`_bootstrap_python` interpreter for
freezing and deepfreezing again. To speed up build process the build tools
:program:`_bootstrap_python` and :program:`_freeze_module` are no longer
build with LTO.
Cross building depends on a build Python interpreter, which must have same
version and bytecode as target host Python.
``Modules/Setup.stdlib`` contains ``Setup`` lines for all stdlib extension modules for which ``configure`` has detected their dependencies. The file is not used yet and still under development. To use the file, do ``ln -sfr Modules/Setup.stdlib Modules/Setup.local``.
Instead we use $(PYTHON_FOR_REGEN) .../deepfreeze.py with the
frozen .h file as input, as we did for Windows in bpo-45850.
We also get rid of the code that generates the .h files
when make regen-frozen is run (i.e., .../make_frozen.py),
and the MANIFEST file.
Restore Python 3.8 and 3.9 as Windows host Python again
Co-authored-by: Kumar Aditya <59607654+kumaraditya303@users.noreply.github.com>
``configure`` now uses a standardized format to forward state, compiler
flags, and linker flags to ``Makefile``, ``setup.py``, and
``Modules/Setup``. ``makesetup`` use the new variables by default if a
module line does not contain any compiler or linker flags. ``setup.py``
has a new function ``addext()``.
For a module ``egg``, configure adds:
* ``MODULE_EGG`` with value yes, missing, disabled, or n/a
* ``MODULE_EGG_CFLAGS``
* ``MODULE_EGG_LDFLAGS``
``Makefile.pre.in`` may also provide ``MODULE_EGG_DEPS`` that lists
dependencies such as header files and static libs.
Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
Settings for :mod:`pyexpat` C extension are now detected by ``configure``.
The bundled ``expat`` library is built in ``Makefile``.
Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
Settings for :mod:`decimal` internal C extension are now detected by
:program:`configure`. The bundled `libmpdec` library is built in
``Makefile``.
Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
This gains 10% or more in startup time for `python -c pass` on UNIX-ish systems.
The Makefile.pre.in generating code builds on Eric's work for bpo-45020, but the .c file generator is new.
Windows version TBD.
Was commented out by Jack Jansen in 2001-08-15 by commit
b6e9cad34ce46a6a733d8aa5bf5b9d389fa1316f:
"Ripped out Next/OpenStep support, which was broken anyway"
Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:tiran
From the autoconf docs *Obsolete Macros* section:
Defined the output variable EXEEXT based on the output of the
compiler, which is now done automatically. Typically set to empty
string if Posix and ‘.exe’ if a DOS variant.
Almost all checks are now cached by AC_CACHE_CHECK().
Common patterns are replaced by helper macros.
Variable names now use naming scheme ``ac_cv_func_$funcname``,
``ac_cv_lib_$library_$funcname``, or ``ac_cv_header_$headername_h``.
``SYS_SELECT_WITH_SYS_TIME`` is no longer used.
``uuid_create`` and ``uuid_enc_be`` are provided by libc on BSD. It is
safe to use ``AC_CHECK_FUNCS`` here.
Caching speeds up ./configure -C from ~ 4s to 2.6s on my system.
Co-authored-by: Erlend Egeberg Aasland <erlend.aasland@innova.no>
Add Modules subdirs to SRCDIRS to generate directories for out-of-tree
object files.
Debian wants ncurses lib. Works on Fedora, too.
Debian also needs pkg-config to detect correct flags.
Remove more outdated comments. Makefile now tracks header dependencies
-lintl is injected by configure when needed. Build _dbm with
gdbm-compat.
Group some modules by purpose. socket, select, and mmap work on Windows,
too.
The :mod:`math` and :mod:`cmath` implementation now require a C99 compatible
``libm`` and no longer ship with workarounds for missing acosh, asinh,
expm1, and log1p functions.
The changeset also removes ``_math.c`` and moves the last remaining
workaround into ``_math.h``. This simplifies static builds with
``Modules/Setup`` and resolves symbol conflicts.
Co-authored-by: Mark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>
Co-authored-by: Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
Freelists for object structs can now be disabled. A new ``configure``
option ``--without-freelists`` can be used to disable all freelists
except empty tuple singleton. Internal Py*_MAXFREELIST macros can now
be defined as 0 without causing compiler warnings and segfaults.
Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
Remove fallbacks for missing round(), copysign() and hypot() in
Python/pymath.c. Python now requires these functions to build.
These fallbacks were needed on Visual Studio 2012 and older. They are
no longer needed since Visual Stuido 2013. Python is now built with
Visual Studio 2017 or newer since Python 3.6.
Building Python now requires a C99 <math.h> header file providing
isinf(), isnan() and isfinite() functions.
Remove the Py_FORCE_DOUBLE() macro. It was used by the
Py_IS_INFINITY() macro.
Changes:
* Remove Py_IS_NAN(), Py_IS_INFINITY() and Py_IS_FINITE()
in PC/pyconfig.h.
* Remove the _Py_force_double() function.
* configure no longer checks if math.h defines isinf(), isnan() and
isfinite().
Change the configure logic to function properly on macOS when the compiler
outputs a platform triplet for option --print-multiarch.
Co-authored-by: Ned Deily <nad@python.org>
For example, without the guard the check could cause macOS
installer builds to fail to install on older supported macOS
releases where libnetwork is not available and is not needed
on any release.
On Unix, if the sem_clockwait() function is available in the C
library (glibc 2.30 and newer), the threading.Lock.acquire() method
now uses the monotonic clock (time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC) for the timeout,
rather than using the system clock (time.CLOCK_REALTIME), to not be
affected by system clock changes.
configure now checks if the sem_clockwait() function is available.
In Unix operating systems, time.sleep() now uses the clock_nanosleep() function,
if available, which allows to sleep for an interval specified with nanosecond precision.
Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
linkage issues mainly for shared libs and missing system library,
also little nit into the signal extension as strsignal returns
a constant in this platform.
Only complain if the config target is >= 10.3 and the current target is
< 10.3. The check was originally added to ensure that incompatible
LDSHARED flags are not used, because -undefined dynamic_lookup is
used when building for 10.3 and later, and is not supported on older OS
versions. Apart from that, there should be no problem in general
with using an older target.
Authored-by: Joshua Root <jmr@macports.org>
This allows reliably forcing macOS universal2 framework builds
to run under Rosetta 2 Intel-64 emulation on Apple Silicon Macs
if needed for testing or when universal2 wheels are not yet
available.
- Remove HAVE_X509_VERIFY_PARAM_SET1_HOST check
- Update hashopenssl to require OpenSSL 1.1.1
- multissltests only OpenSSL > 1.1.0
- ALPN is always supported
- SNI is always supported
- Remove deprecated NPN code. Python wrappers are no-op.
- ECDH is always supported
- Remove OPENSSL_VERSION_1_1 macro
- Remove locking callbacks
- Drop PY_OPENSSL_1_1_API macro
- Drop HAVE_SSL_CTX_CLEAR_OPTIONS macro
- SSL_CTRL_GET_MAX_PROTO_VERSION is always defined now
- security level is always available now
- get_num_tickets is available with TLS 1.3
- X509_V_ERR MISMATCH is always available now
- Always set SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
- X509_V_FLAG_TRUSTED_FIRST is always available
- get_ciphers is always supported
- SSL_CTX_set_keylog_callback is always available
- Update Modules/Setup with static link example
- Mention PEP in whatsnew
- Drop 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 from GHA tests
* Remove m68k-specific hack from ascii_decode
On m68k, alignments of primitives is more relaxed, with 4-byte and
8-byte types only requiring 2-byte alignment, thus using sizeof(size_t)
does not work. Instead, use the portable alternative.
Note that this is a minimal fix that only relaxes the assertion and the
condition for when to use the optimised version remains overly strict.
Such issues will be fixed tree-wide in the next commit.
NB: In C11 we could use _Alignof(size_t) instead, but for compatibility
we use autoconf.
* Optimise string routines for architectures with non-natural alignment
C only requires that sizeof(x) is a multiple of alignof(x), not that the
two are equal. Thus anywhere where we optimise based on alignment we
should be using alignof(x) not sizeof(x).
This is more annoying than it would be in C11 where we could just use
_Alignof(x) (and alignof(x) in C++11), but since we still require only
C99 we must plumb the information all the way from autoconf through the
various typedefs and defines.
These functions were undocumented and excluded from the limited C
API.
Most names defined by these header files were not prefixed by "Py"
and so could create names conflicts. For example, Python-ast.h
defined a "Yield" macro which was conflict with the "Yield" name used
by the Windows <winbase.h> header.
Use the Python ast module instead.
* Move Include/asdl.h to Include/internal/pycore_asdl.h.
* Move Include/Python-ast.h to Include/internal/pycore_ast.h.
* Remove ast.h header file.
* pycore_symtable.h no longer includes Python-ast.h.
Add a new configure --without-static-libpython option to not build
the libpythonMAJOR.MINOR.a static library and not install the
python.o object file.
Fix smelly.py and stable_abi.py tools when libpython3.10.a is
missing.
In contrast to macOS, libedit is available as its own include file and
library on Linux systems to prevent file name clashes. So if both
libraries are available on the system, readline is currently chosen by
default; and if only libedit is available, it is not found at all. This
patch adds a way to link against libedit by adding the following
arguments to configure:
--with-readline link against libreadline (the default)
--with-readline=editline link against libeditline
--with-readline=no disable building the readline module
--without-readline (same)
The runtime detection of libedit vs. readline was already done in commit
7105319ada (2019-12-04, serge-sans-paille: "bpo-38634: Allow
non-apple build to cope with libedit (GH-16986)").
Fixes: GH-12076 ("bpo-13501 Build or disable readline with Editline")
Fixes: bpo-13501 ("Make libedit support more generic; port readline / libedit to FreeBSD")
Co-authored-by: Enji Cooper (ngie-eign)
Co-authored-by: Martin Panter (vadmium)
Co-authored-by: Robert Marshall (kellinm)
Add --with-wheel-pkg-dir=PATH option to the ./configure script. If
specified, the ensurepip module looks for setuptools and pip wheel
packages in this directory: if both are present, these wheel packages
are used instead of ensurepip bundled wheel packages.
Some Linux distribution packaging policies recommend against bundling
dependencies. For example, Fedora installs wheel packages in the
/usr/share/python-wheels/ directory and don't install the
ensurepip._bundled package.
ensurepip: Remove unused runpy import.
According to [bpo-42874](), some versions of grep do not support the `-q` and `-E` options. Although both options are used elsewhere in the configure script, this particular bit of validation can be achieved without them,
so there's no real harm in using a grep call with no flags.
Would be good to get some people taking advantage of the `--with-tzpath` arguments in the wild to try this out.. Local testing seems to indicate that this does the same thing, but I don't know that we have any buildbots using this option. Maybe @pablogsal?
[bpo-42874]():
Added --disable-test-modules option to the configure script:
don't build nor install test modules.
Patch by Xavier de Gaye, Thomas Petazzoni and Peixing Xin.
Co-Authored-By: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Co-Authored-By: Xavier de Gaye <xdegaye@gmail.com>
Add pycore_atomic_funcs.h internal header file: similar to
pycore_atomic.h but don't require to declare variables as atomic.
Add _Py_atomic_size_get() and _Py_atomic_size_set() functions.
Now all platforms use a value for the "EXT_SUFFIX" build variable derived
from SOABI (for instance in FreeBSD, "EXT_SUFFIX" is now ".cpython-310d.so"
instead of ".so"). Previously only Linux, Mac and VxWorks were using a value
for "EXT_SUFFIX" that included "SOABI".
Co-authored-by: Pablo Galindo <pablogsal@gmail.com>
This is invalid in C99 and later and is an error with some compilers
(e.g. clang in Xcode 12), and can thus cause configure checks to
produce incorrect results.
As [bpo-38443]() says the error message from configure when specifying --enable-universalsdk with a set of architectures that is not supported by the compiler is not very helpful. This PR explicitly checks if the compiler works and bails out if it doesn't.
As AIX 5.3 and below do not support thread_cputime, it was decided in
https://bugs.python.org/issue40680 to require AIX 6.1 and above. This
commit removes workarounds for — and references to — older, unsupported
AIX versions.
Co-authored-by: Lawrence D’Anna <lawrence_danna@apple.com>
* Add support for macOS 11 and Apple Silicon (aka arm64)
As a side effect of this work use the system copy of libffi on macOS, and remove the vendored copy
* Support building on recent versions of macOS while deploying to older versions
This allows building installers on macOS 11 while still supporting macOS 10.9.
* bpo-35823: subprocess: Use vfork() instead of fork() on Linux when safe
When used to run a new executable image, fork() is not a good choice
for process creation, especially if the parent has a large working set:
fork() needs to copy page tables, which is slow, and may fail on systems
where overcommit is disabled, despite that the child is not going to
touch most of its address space.
Currently, subprocess is capable of using posix_spawn() instead, which
normally provides much better performance. However, posix_spawn() does not
support many of child setup operations exposed by subprocess.Popen().
Most notably, it's not possible to express `close_fds=True`, which
happens to be the default, via posix_spawn(). As a result, most users
can't benefit from faster process creation, at least not without
changing their code.
However, Linux provides vfork() system call, which creates a new process
without copying the address space of the parent, and which is actually
used by C libraries to efficiently implement posix_spawn(). Due to sharing
of the address space and even the stack with the parent, extreme care
is required to use vfork(). At least the following restrictions must hold:
* No signal handlers must execute in the child process. Otherwise, they
might clobber memory shared with the parent, potentially confusing it.
* Any library function called after vfork() in the child must be
async-signal-safe (as for fork()), but it must also not interact with any
library state in a way that might break due to address space sharing
and/or lack of any preparations performed by libraries on normal fork().
POSIX.1 permits to call only execve() and _exit(), and later revisions
remove vfork() specification entirely. In practice, however, almost all
operations needed by subprocess.Popen() can be safely implemented on
Linux.
* Due to sharing of the stack with the parent, the child must be careful
not to clobber local variables that are alive across vfork() call.
Compilers are normally aware of this and take extra care with vfork()
(and setjmp(), which has a similar problem).
* In case the parent is privileged, special attention must be paid to vfork()
use, because sharing an address space across different privilege domains
is insecure[1].
This patch adds support for using vfork() instead of fork() on Linux
when it's possible to do safely given the above. In particular:
* vfork() is not used if credential switch is requested. The reverse case
(simple subprocess.Popen() but another application thread switches
credentials concurrently) is not possible for pure-Python apps because
subprocess.Popen() and functions like os.setuid() are mutually excluded
via GIL. We might also consider to add a way to opt-out of vfork() (and
posix_spawn() on platforms where it might be implemented via vfork()) in
a future PR.
* vfork() is not used if `preexec_fn != None`.
With this change, subprocess will still use posix_spawn() if possible, but
will fallback to vfork() on Linux in most cases, and, failing that,
to fork().
[1] https://ewontfix.com/7
Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith [Google LLC] <gps@google.com>
Since c19c5a6, AIX builds have defaulted to using dynload_shlib over
dynload_aix when dlopen is available. This function has been available
since AIX 4.3, which went out of support in 2003, the same year the
previously referenced commit was made. It has been nearly 20 years
since a version of AIX has been supported which has not used
dynload_shlib so there's no reason to keep this legacy code around.
close_range(2) should be preferred at all times if it's available, otherwise we'll use closefrom(2) if available with a fallback to fdwalk(3) or plain old loop over fd range in order of most efficient to least.
[note that this version does check for ENOSYS, but currently ignores all other errors]
Automerge-Triggered-By: @pablogsal
This commit removes the old parser, the deprecated parser module, the old parser compatibility flags and environment variables and all associated support code and documentation.
"make install" now uses the PLATLIBDIR variable for the destination
lib-dynload/ directory when ./configure --with-platlibdir is used.
Update --with-platlibdir comment in configure.
This reverts commit 0da5466650.
The commit is causing make failures on a FreeBSD buildbot.
Due to the imminent 3.9.0b1 cutoff, revert this commit for
now pending further investigation.
Add support to the configure script for OBJC and OBJCXX command line options so that the macOS builds can use the clang compiler for the macOS-specific Objective C source files. This allows third-party compilers, like GNU gcc, to be used to build the rest of the project since some of the Objective C system header files are not compilable by GNU gcc.
Co-authored-by: Jeffrey Kintscher <websurfer@surf2c.net>
Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
This is the initial implementation of PEP 615, the zoneinfo module,
ported from the standalone reference implementation (see
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0615/#reference-implementation for a
link, which has a more detailed commit history).
This includes (hopefully) all functional elements described in the PEP,
but documentation is found in a separate PR. This includes:
1. A pure python implementation of the ZoneInfo class
2. A C accelerated implementation of the ZoneInfo class
3. Tests with 100% branch coverage for the Python code (though C code
coverage is less than 100%).
4. A compile-time configuration option on Linux (though not on Windows)
Differences from the reference implementation:
- The module is arranged slightly differently: the accelerated module is
`_zoneinfo` rather than `zoneinfo._czoneinfo`, which also necessitates
some changes in the test support function. (Suggested by Victor
Stinner and Steve Dower.)
- The tests are arranged slightly differently and do not include the
property tests. The tests live at test/test_zoneinfo/test_zoneinfo.py
rather than test/test_zoneinfo.py or test/test_zoneinfo/__init__.py
because we may do some refactoring in the future that would likely
require this separation anyway; we may:
- include the property tests
- automatically run all the tests against both pure Python and C,
rather than manually constructing C and Python test classes (similar
to the way this works with test_datetime.py, which generates C
and Python test cases from datetimetester.py).
- This includes a compile-time configuration option on Linux (though not
on Windows); added with much help from Thomas Wouters.
- Integration into the CPython build system is obviously different from
building a standalone zoneinfo module wheel.
- This includes configuration to install the tzdata package as part of
CI, though only on the coverage jobs. Introducing a PyPI dependency as
part of the CI build was controversial, and this is seen as less of a
major change, since the coverage jobs already depend on pip and PyPI.
Additional changes that were introduced as part of this PR, most / all of
which were backported to the reference implementation:
- Fixed reference and memory leaks
With much debugging help from Pablo Galindo
- Added smoke tests ensuring that the C and Python modules are built
The import machinery can be somewhat fragile, and the "seamlessly falls
back to pure Python" nature of this module makes it so that a problem
building the C extension or a failure to import the pure Python version
might easily go unnoticed.
- Adjustments to zoneinfo.__dir__
Suggested by Petr Viktorin.
- Slight refactorings as suggested by Steve Dower.
- Removed unnecessary if check on std_abbr
Discovered this because of a missing line in branch coverage.
Add --with-experimental-isolated-subinterpreters build option to
configure: better isolate subinterpreters, experimental build mode.
When used, force the usage of the libc malloc() memory allocator,
since pymalloc relies on the unique global interpreter lock (GIL).
This fixes a regression introduced in bpo-38960.
When DFLAGS was empty, "$DFLAGS" results in an empty argument ("").
Without the quotes, an empty variable will be ignored by the shell.
Add --with-platlibdir option to the configure script: name of the
platform-specific library directory, stored in the new sys.platlitdir
attribute. It is used to build the path of platform-specific dynamic
libraries and the path of the standard library.
It is equal to "lib" on most platforms. On Fedora and SuSE, it is
equal to "lib64" on 64-bit systems.
Co-Authored-By: Jan Matějek <jmatejek@suse.com>
Co-Authored-By: Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu>
Co-Authored-By: Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com>
Setting `-D_XOPEN_SOURCE=700` on HP-UX causes system functions such as chroot to be undefined. This change stops `_XOPEN_SOURCE` begin set on HP-UX
Co-authored-by: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
The os.putenv() and os.unsetenv() functions are now always available.
On non-Windows platforms, Python now requires setenv() and unsetenv()
functions to build.
Remove putenv_dict from posixmodule.c: it's not longer needed.
If setenv() C function is available, os.putenv() is now implemented
with setenv() instead of putenv(), so Python doesn't have to handle
the environment variable memory.
Provides a richer platform tag for AIX that we expect to be sufficient for PEP 425
binary distribution identification. Any backports to earlier Python versions will be
handled via setuptools.
Patch by Michael Felt.
Fix stdatomic.h header check for ICC compiler: the ICC implementation
lacks atomic_uintptr_t type which is needed by Python.
Test:
* atomic_int and atomic_uintptr_t types
* atomic_load_explicit() and atomic_store_explicit()
* memory_order_relaxed and memory_order_seq_cst constants
But don't test ATOMIC_VAR_INIT(): it's not used in Python.
This changeset increases the default size of the stack
for threads on macOS to the size of the stack
of the main thread and reenables the relevant
recursion test.
Reduce the number of unit tests run for the PGO generation task. This
speeds up the task by a factor of about 15x. Running the full unit test
suite is slow. This change may result in a slightly less optimized build
since not as many code branches will be executed. If you are willing to
wait for the much slower build, the old behavior can be restored using
'./configure [..] PROFILE_TASK="-m test --pgo-extended"'. We make no
guarantees as to which PGO task set produces a faster build. Users who
care should run their own relevant benchmarks as results can depend on
the environment, workload, and compiler tool chain.
Under some conditions the earlier fix for bpo-18075, "Infinite recursion
tests triggering a segfault on Mac OS X", now causes failures on macOS
when attempting to change stack limit with resource.setrlimit
resource.RLIMIT_STACK, like regrtest does when running the test suite.
The reverted change had specified a non-default stack size when linking
the python executable on macOS. As of macOS 10.14.4, the previous
code causes a hard failure when running tests, although similar
failures had been seen under some conditions under some earlier
systems. Reverting the change to the interpreter stack size at link
time helped for release builds but caused some tests to fail when
built --with-pydebug. Try the opposite approach: continue to build
the interpreter with an increased stack size on macOS and remove
the failing setrlimit call in regrtest initialization. This will
definitely avoid the resource.RLIMIT_STACK error and should have
no, or fewer, side effects.
* bpo-26836: Add os.memfd_create()
* Use the glibc wrapper for memfd_create()
Co-Authored-By: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
* Fix deletions caused by autoreconf.
* Use MFD_CLOEXEC as the default value for *flags*.
* Add memset_s to configure.ac.
* Revert memset_s changes.
* Apply the requested changes.
* Tweak the docs.
It is also possible to link against a library or executable with a
statically linked libpython, but not both with the same DLL. In fact
building a statically linked python is currently broken on Cygwin
for other (related) reasons.
The same problem applies to other POSIX-like layers over Windows
(MinGW, MSYS) but Python's build system does not seem to attempt
to support those platforms at the moment.
To embed Python into an application, a new --embed option must be
passed to "python3-config --libs --embed" to get "-lpython3.8" (link
the application to libpython). To support both 3.8 and older, try
"python3-config --libs --embed" first and fallback to "python3-config
--libs" (without --embed) if the previous command fails.
Add a pkg-config "python-3.8-embed" module to embed Python into an
application: "pkg-config python-3.8-embed --libs" includes
"-lpython3.8". To support both 3.8 and older, try "pkg-config
python-X.Y-embed --libs" first and fallback to "pkg-config python-X.Y
--libs" (without --embed) if the previous command fails (replace
"X.Y" with the Python version).
On the other hand, "pkg-config python3.8 --libs" no longer contains
"-lpython3.8". C extensions must not be linked to libpython (except
on Android, case handled by the script); this change is backward
incompatible on purpose.
"make install" now also installs "python-3.8-embed.pc".
Under some conditions the earlier fix for bpo-18075, "Infinite recursion
tests triggering a segfault on Mac OS X", now causes failures on macOS
when attempting to change stack limit with resource.setrlimit
resource.RLIMIT_STACK, like regrtest does when running the test suite.
The reverted change had specified a non-default stack size when linking
the python executable on macOS. As of macOS 10.14.4, the previous
code causes a hard failure when running tests, although similar
failures had been seen under some conditions under some earlier
systems. For now, revert the original change and resume using
the default stack size when linking the interpreter.
Release build and debug build are now ABI compatible: the Py_DEBUG
define no longer implies Py_TRACE_REFS define which introduces the
only ABI incompatibility.
A new "./configure --with-trace-refs" build option is now required to
get Py_TRACE_REFS define which adds sys.getobjects() function and
PYTHONDUMPREFS environment variable.
Changes:
* Add ./configure --with-trace-refs
* Py_DEBUG no longer implies Py_TRACE_REFS
"./configure --with-pymalloc" no longer adds the "m" flag to SOABI
(sys.implementation.cache_tag).
Enabling or disabling pymalloc has no impact on the ABI.
Add -fmax-type-align=8 to CFLAGS when clang compiler is detected.
The pymalloc memory allocator aligns memory on 8 bytes. On x86-64,
clang expects alignment on 16 bytes by default and so uses MOVAPS
instruction which can lead to segmentation fault. Instruct clang that
Python is limited to alignemnt on 8 bytes to use MOVUPS instruction
instead: slower but don't trigger a SIGSEGV if the memory is not
aligned on 16 bytes.
Sadly, the flag must be expected to CFLAGS and not just
CFLAGS_NODIST, since third party C extensions can have the same
issue.
On AIX, sys.platform doesn't contain the major version anymore.
Always return 'aix', instead of 'aix3' .. 'aix7'. Since
older Python versions include the version number, it is recommended to
always use sys.platform.startswith('aix').