# http://bugs.python.org/issue17964 was fixed in 3.4 but not back-ported so we
# need this patch for 2.7 .

--- Python-2.7.7/Modules/posixmodule.c.~2~	2014-06-02 11:01:10.919544709 -0700
+++ Python-2.7.7/Modules/posixmodule.c	2014-06-02 11:01:11.009553336 -0700
@@ -8499,7 +8499,7 @@
     int name;
 
     if (PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O&:sysconf", conv_sysconf_confname, &name)) {
-        int value;
+        long value;
 
         errno = 0;
         value = sysconf(name);