[GUMP-88] ./gump fails with SyntaxError on Solaris8

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Gump2-2.3
• Fix Version/s: Gump2-2.3
• Component/s: Python-based Gump
• Environment: Solaris v2.8; Gump trunk; Python v2.4
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Graham Leggett
• Created: 18/Feb/05 22:53
• Updated: 19/Apr/05 06:06
• Resolved: 19/Apr/05 05:47

Description

If an attempt is made to check the gump code out of svn onto a solaris8 machine with python v2.4 installed, the following error results:

bash-2.03$ ./gump validate
./gump: function: not found

Run the DTD validation tools on the metadata.

Usage:
./gump validate

./gump: function: not found
./gump: validate

Adding the python -d flag, results in the following:

bash-2.03$ python -d gump validate
File "gump", line 25
function usage
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Checking out the same gump code from svn onto a MacOSX machine and running it against python v2.3 shows that the same gump script works.

It looks like gump in it's current form is not compatible with python v2.4.