[Python-Dev] Re: configure problems porting to Tru64

[Neal Norwitz]

"Martin v. Loewis" wrote:
> 
> jeremy@alum.mit.edu (Jeremy Hylton) writes:
> 
> > It looks like Tru64 doesn't have a makedev().  You added the patch
> > that included this a while back.  Do you have any idea what we should
> > do on Tru64?
> 
> Neal says you need to define _OSF_SOURCE, but it would better if we
> could do without. If not, we should both define _OSF_SOURCE (perhaps
> only on OSF), and add an autoconf test for makedev.

I agree with Martin.  It would be best to only define _OSF_SOURCE
if absolutely necessary and use autoconf.

Neal