2.4.0 Cygwin - exceptions.OverflowError: can't convert negative value delta.py line 127,

[Ronald Blaschke]

On 09/26/2011 03:45 PM, Martin Packman wrote:
> On 21 September 2011 17:11, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto at cante.net> wrote:
>>
>> The following was reported in Cygwin mailing list for the 2.4.0. Other
>> caused this. Do you know if the 2.4.1 contains this fix so that it could be
>> packaged ASAP?
> 
> This looks like bug 706957 which still needs fixing.

I've seen this bug report.  First I thought this is what's happening for
me, but as far as I understood, this is not something introduced with 2.4.

>> bzrlib._dirstate_helpers_pyx._pack_stat
>> (bzrlib/_dirstate_helpers_pyx.c:5547)
>> OverflowError: can't convert negative value to unsigned long
> 
> Either a timestamp or file size that doesn't fit in four bytes,
> generally the workaround is just to touch the problem file so it gets
> a sensible mtime.
> 
>> There is no issue with bzr 2.3.1-1.  Also, I have checked out the bzr
>> 2.4.0 source and built it myself ("make extensions"), and this works
>> just fine as well.
> 
> Nothing around this problem should have changed between 2.3 and 2.4 -
> but if you didn't test on the same branch, or touched any of the files
> in between, that may have made the problem go away.

For me, the problem is still there, at least when running /usr/bin/bzr.
 My locally compiled version works fine.

Now that I think about it, could this somehow relate to Cython/Pyrex?
I have the latest python-pyrex package, but don't think I've got Cython
installed.

Ron