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r62499 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-25 12:11:04 -0400 (Fri, 25 Apr 2008) | 7 lines
Issue #1496032. Add -mieee to BASECFLAGS on alpha, when gcc is
the compiler. This should(?) help to fix failures in test_math
and test_cmath on Linux/alpha.
Also add configure message reporting the result of uname -m, as
a debugging aid.
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Build
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+- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
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- "make install" is now an alias for "make altinstall", to prevent
accidentally overwriting a Python 2.x installation.
Use "make fullinstall" to force Python 3.0 to be installed as