[BangPypers] Python 2.7.1 build successful, however many modules failed on HP-UX 11.31 ia64 with aCC

[Senthil Kumaran]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:11:59PM -0700, Wah Meng Wong wrote:
> errors, more modules built successfully compared to acc (64-bit). The main
> thing I discovered is +DD64 is not recognized as a valid flag in ld command
> (the linker). This command is automatically generated in Makefile. I have

And that is what is surprising. This becomes a linker error.

> posted my question to bugs.python.org and the community there responded failure
> to build a module is not a bug and asked me to refer to other community.

Yes, I noticed that. But as you mentioned that you followed the
instructions in the README, if you could succeed in building, we
at least have one bug (fix) with the compilation process mentioned in
the readme.

HP-UX being such an uncommon platform, the python core developers have
not spent much time fixing bugs in that (unless raised and provided
the fix with patch which did not affect any other platform).

> 2.) The reason I am sticking to acc is, I am also using tcl/tk. I have built
> tcl/tk with gcc however the tk (wish) crashes with a core dump file generated
> when gcc is used. 

I see. I get the point.

Also, I think, your situation is the right candidate to try out
ActiveState distribution, if they claim to support HP-UX.

Good Luck,
Senthil