[PySide] Problems building pyside 1.2.1 on AIX (shiboken problem)

[Albert Chin]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 03:07:00PM -0400, John Ehresman wrote:
> On 4/17/14, 2:58 PM, Albert Chin wrote:
> >> I suspect this means the "typedef unsigned int uint" isn't being
> >> seen when shiboken scans the header files during generation on AIX
> >> while it is seen on the other platforms.  I don't think the uint
> >> type is special cased inside of shiboken.
> >
> > Correct. The problem is that on AIX we have:
> >    typedef unsigned int uint_t;
> >    typedef uint_t uint;
> 
> The question is why you don't get an alias from uint to uint_t and then 
> another one from uint_t to unsigned int.  I don't know the answer.  You 
> might try putting together a minimal test case and then seeing what the 
> difference is in it.

We do get an alias from uint to uint_t. But, oddly, not from uint_t to
unsigned int. At least, that's what I've gathered from my debugging so
far.

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albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)