Re: xs.c and PyMODINIT_FUNC in xen-unstable-src.tgz

[Mike Wray <mike.wray@hp.com>]

rami rosen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Really a little thing:
> 
>  I had downaloaded the xen-unstable-src.tgz version from the Xen 
> downloads web site yesterday.
> 
> I ran "make world".
> I have python-2.2.2-26 on my RH9 machine.
> 
> I get an error in xs.c; looking a bit showed that it came from that
> PyMODINIT_FUNC is not define; more specifically:
> 
> These lines in python/xen/lowlevel/xs/xs.c:
> /* Needed for Python versions earlier than 2.3. */
> //#ifndef PyMODINIT_FUNC
> //#define PyMODINIT_FUNC DL_EXPORT(void)
> //#endif
> 
> 
> So I removed this remarks ; I also saw that in xc.c and xu.c these
> #ifndef PyMODINIT_FUNC lines **DO** appear.
> 
> I assume that these lines were remarked mistakingly and that there is no 
> real
> need to upgrade the Python version to a version >= 2.3. Am I right ?
> 

Python 2.3 was released in July 2003, so versions older than that
are pretty old. Looking at the release notes I see that bool(), True and False
came in back then - so I suspect some things may not work right with earlier versions.

Regards,
Mike