On OS X, use os.uname() instead of gestalt.sysv(...) to get the
operating system version. This allows to use ctypes when Python
was configured with --disable-toolbox-glue.
diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py b/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
index 2e35307..1500896 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
@@ -24,19 +24,12 @@
DEFAULT_MODE = RTLD_LOCAL
if _os.name == "posix" and _sys.platform == "darwin":
- import gestalt
-
- # gestalt.gestalt("sysv") returns the version number of the
- # currently active system file as BCD.
- # On OS X 10.4.6 -> 0x1046
- # On OS X 10.2.8 -> 0x1028
- # See also http://www.rgaros.nl/gestalt/
- #
# On OS X 10.3, we use RTLD_GLOBAL as default mode
# because RTLD_LOCAL does not work at least on some
- # libraries.
+ # libraries. OS X 10.3 is Darwin 7, so we check for
+ # that.
- if gestalt.gestalt("sysv") < 0x1040:
+ if int(_os.uname()[2].split('.')[0]) < 8:
DEFAULT_MODE = RTLD_GLOBAL
from _ctypes import FUNCFLAG_CDECL as _FUNCFLAG_CDECL, \
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4492590..99d9249 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -272,6 +272,9 @@
Library
-------
+- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
+ --disable-toolbox-glue
+
- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised