[reportlab-users] Reportlab 2.1 with Python2.5 on x86_64

[Robin Becker]

Mike Steder wrote:

> Hello All,

> 

> Is anyone successfully running the latest Reportlab (2.1) on Python2.5

> with a 64-bit OS (specifically 64-bit Linux)?

> 

> I'm seeing some odd behaviour and coworkers running a 32-bit Linux are

> able to generate a PDF from the same RML my 64-bit system chokes on.

> 

> ~Mike  

> 

.......
Mike, I am running on an AMD 64 bit FreeBSD machine


$ python
Python 2.4.3 (#2, Oct 17 2006, 22:10:52)
[GCC 3.4.4 [FreeBSD] 20050518] on freebsd6
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import sys
 >>> sys.maxint
9223372036854775807
 >>>


and we're having no problems. I'm almost sure I had to change something in the 
standard build to get our stuff working reasonably though. I think it might have 
been related to unicode size, but I'm not sure. I'll have to try and dig out the 
build procedure and see if I can figure out what was changed.
-- 
Robin Becker