Getting started

[Eric W. Biederman]

ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:

> On 15 Sep 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> > > romcc is sensitive to the version of linux you are running at present. 
> > 
> > Ron how so?  If romcc compiles it should work.  I don't have any
> > excuse for romcc to behave different depending on what compiler
> > compiles it.
> 
> it makes no sense to me either, as romcc is clean and well-written. It is 
> just what I have seen: it won't work on my RH 7.3 box, with:
> gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)

Hmm. Ok.   When you get a good datapoint...
 
> BTW, config.py as of today doesn't work with this error:
>   File "/home/rminnich/src/freebios2/util/newconfig/config.py", line 1393, 
> in term
>     return long(NUM, 10)
> TypeError: long requires exactly 1 argument; 2 given
> 
> I think somebody broke something. Python it turns out rotates function 
> definitions frequently, with the result that it is hard to write 
> python-version-independent code. 

Which rev of python is this?

Either I am not executing this, in my configuration file.  Or
it works fine for me with python2.1 python2.2 and python2.3

Eric