[Python-Dev] "Brennan, Bernadette": Python 1.5.2 & Solaris 8

[Thomas Wouters]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:55:01PM +0200, Thomas Wouters wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:00:33AM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Does anyone remember what the problems with Solaris-8 were?  Shallow,
> > I hope?

> No clue, sorry. I don't have Solaris 8, either, but I do have access to
> Solaris 7 (currently, but not for long) and will attempt to build a couple
> of releases on it.

I managed to get it working on Solaris, though I had some problems with
readline and socket-with-ssl -- presumably because distutils tried to link
against static libraries, not shared ones. However, I just noticed
SourceForge has a compilefarm that includes Solaris 8. I compiled Python
2.1.1 and it worked fine.

-- 
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>

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