[PATCHES] Port pytalloc to Python 3

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Mon Jan 12 07:05:36 MST 2015


On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 06:12:45PM +0100, Petr Viktorin wrote:
> On 12/06/2014 10:29 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> >Hi Petr,
> >
> >Thanks for the updated patchset.
> >
> >On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 10:52:42AM +0100, Petr Viktorin wrote:
> >>On 11/28/2014 06:29 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> >>[...]
> >>>> From 9908f55c38ac7e69c96d094065e3f312c963f293 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >>>>From: Petr Viktorin <pviktori at redhat.com>
> >>>>Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:53:33 +0100
> >>>>Subject: [PATCH 1/4] buildtools: Honor LDVERSION when looking for Python
> >>>>  library
> >>>>
> >>
> >>>^^ Waf patches should go to waf upstream first. We can then update our copy of waf in Samba.
> >>
> >>The patch was accepted to upstream waf's 1.5 branch
> >>(https://code.google.com/p/waf/issues/detail?id=1405).
> >>
> >>Samba's copy has diverged though, there are BSD fixes upstream and a
> >>cross-compiling patch only in Samba.
> >I've forwarded those upstream a couple of days ago; the cross compiling patch should be the
> >only one left and we might be able to drop that (I need a cross-compiling expert to confirm
> >that).
> >
> >>>>diff --git a/lib/talloc/wscript b/lib/talloc/wscript
> >>>>index 986492ccde8c7cdac830dc237893775a2682b2fd..57c0faae778c0427859668e3c5b478f62670af97 100644
> >>>>--- a/lib/talloc/wscript
> >>>>+++ b/lib/talloc/wscript
> >>>>@@ -113,21 +113,25 @@ def build(bld):
> >>>>                            manpages='man/talloc.3')
> >>>>
> >>>>      if not bld.CONFIG_SET('USING_SYSTEM_PYTALLOC_UTIL') and not bld.env.disable_python:
> >>>>-        bld.SAMBA_LIBRARY('pytalloc-util',
> >>>>+        if bld.env.PYTHON_VERSION >= '3':
> >>>^^ How hard would it be to build with all Python versions found rather than
> >>>just the one that we found first? That would make preventing regressions with
> >>>python3 a lot easier.
> >>
> >>I'm afraid that would end up being a major refactoring in Waf – all the
> >>PYTHON* configuration in the build system assumes a single Python version
> >>for the entire build, so we'd have to add some way to have two parallel
> >>configurations for anything that touches Python.
> >>
> >>If Samba ends up supporting both Python versions only for a short time,
> >>(except the small stand-alone libraries), then it definitely wouldn't be
> >>worth the effort. Otherwise, it probably also wouldn't, but I would look
> >>into it more in that case.
> >Like ab says, I think this would be important to do if we are going to support
> >two Pythons for a while. Not supporting building with multiple python versions here
> >is pushing the responsibility for building talloc with multiple pythons out to all
> >the packagers.
> 
> I am looking into adding a "build for both Pythons" option for the build
> scripts. It looks like it will be possible to do, after all.
That would be great.

> >Related to this, can we get python3-dev installed on sn-devel so that
> >autobuild builds the python3 bindings?
> >
> >> From 27e5087868a7790d1fb94f432ef5ba69dbc0cb45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >>From: Petr Viktorin <pviktori at redhat.com>
> >>Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:53:33 +0100
> >>Subject: [PATCH v2 1/4] buildtools: Honor LDVERSION when looking for Python
> >>  library
> >>
> >>diff --git a/lib/talloc/pytalloc.h b/lib/talloc/pytalloc.h
> >>index 5c3876ed156a58aa23ea15193c234a5edf46277d..608328e6aca36336b38a5ce6b6a742f1a02facfd 100644
> >>--- a/lib/talloc/pytalloc.h
> >>+++ b/lib/talloc/pytalloc.h
> >>@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ PyObject *pytalloc_reference_ex(PyTypeObject *py_type, TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx, void
> >>
> >>  #define pytalloc_new(type, typeobj) pytalloc_steal(typeobj, talloc_zero(NULL, type))
> >>
> >>+#if PY_MAJOR_VERSION < 3
> >>  PyObject *pytalloc_CObject_FromTallocPtr(void *);
> >>+#endif
> >^^ This function should be marked deprecated in the Python2 version; we'll have
> >to migrate all code that uses it away from it anyway. I don't think that (marking it
> >deprecated) needs to happen in this patchset though.
> >
> >Other than that, changes LGTM.
> 
> Thanks!
> What would be the next step towards getting this merged? Does it depend on
> the build system improvements?
Yeah, I think that is important; otherwise there is a high risk the python3
support will regress at some point.

Cheers,

Jelmer


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