[Python-Dev] Towards 1.6 Final

[Greg Ward]

On 13 June 2000, Vladimir Marangozov said:
> > - Fix ./ld_so_aix installation problem on AIX (anybody know more about
> >   this???)
> 
> Yes, AMK, Greg Ward and I know more. It's more an automation (path) problem
> for building C extensions with distutils than an installation problem per se.
> Some time ago, I saw a workaround checked in by Greg. If this is still judged
> as a problem, I'd like to hear about it. This is a minor thing. I have yet
> to install & run the distutil package on AIX, though, and see what happens.

As I recall, my workaround didn't work.  (Would that make it a
failaround?)

Vladimir, *please* give the Distutils a whirl on AIX -- I suspect some
sort of hack is needed to get extension-building working there.  I don't
much care if the Makefile installed by Python is "fixed" to have an
absolute path to "ld_so_aix" instead of "./ld_so_aix" -- that should
make extension-building with the Distutils OK, but it will break the
relocatability of a Python installation on AIX.  Also, it won't fix
Distutils with Python 1.5.2.

Thanks --

       Greg