Guido van Rossum | a7925f1 | 1994-01-26 10:20:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | [Excerpt from an email describing how to build Python on AIX.] |
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| 4 | Subject: Re: Python 1.0.0 BETA 5 -- also for Macintosh! |
| 5 | From: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) |
| 6 | To: Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl |
| 7 | Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 17:40:43 +0100 |
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| 9 | [...] |
| 10 | |
| 11 | The following are [...] Instructions |
| 12 | to get a clean compile using gcc and xlc |
| 13 | under AIX 3.2.4. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Since I wanted to make sure that Python compiles |
| 16 | using both compilers and several sets of options |
| 17 | (ANSI and traditional C, optimize on/off) I didn't |
| 18 | try to include bash readline or other optional |
| 19 | modules. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | 'make test' succeeded using Python compiled with |
| 22 | the AIX C-compiler invoked as 'cc' and with options |
| 23 | '-o -qMEMMAX=4000' and compiled with 'gcc' and |
| 24 | options '-O -Wall'. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | There were some problems trying to compile python |
| 27 | using 'gcc -ansi' (because of _AIX no longer being |
| 28 | defined), but I didn't have time to look into this. |
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| 31 | |
| 32 | Regards, |
| 33 | |
| 34 | Stefan Esser |
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| 38 | |
| 39 | REQUIRED: |
| 40 | --------- |
| 41 | |
| 42 | 1) AIX compilers don't like the LANG env |
| 43 | varaiable set to european locales. |
| 44 | This makes the compiler generate floating |
| 45 | point constants using "," as the decimal |
| 46 | seperator, which the assembler doesnt't |
| 47 | understand (or was it the other way around, |
| 48 | with the assembler expecting "," in float |
| 49 | numbers ???). |
| 50 | Anyway: "LANG=C; export LANG" solves the |
| 51 | problem, as does "LANG=C $(MAKE) ..." in |
| 52 | the master Makefile. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | OPTIONAL: |
| 55 | --------- |
| 56 | |
| 57 | 2) The xlc compiler considers "Python/ceval.c" |
| 58 | too complex to optimize, except when invoked |
| 59 | with "-qMEMMAX=4000". |
| 60 | |
| 61 | [...] |