The error of building Python on HP UX

[Albert Chin-A-Young]

Tim Peters <tim.one at home.com> wrote:
> [Guido]
>> (Couldn't resist. :-)
>>
>> It is indeed an error to attempt to build Python on HP UX.  (See the
>> endless laments in the SF bug database.)

> [SteveN]
>> And yet HP makes it available:
>> http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Languages/python-2.1/

> They've made binaries available for some time, yet HP-UX users seem
> incapable of successfully compiling it themselves ("see the endless laments
> in the SF bug database" indeed).  So what's up with that platform?!  Would
> sure be nice if one of the folks at the HP Porting Centre filled us in --
> and if they need to patch the source to get it to compile, we'd be delighted
> to fold that into the core.

We'll submit patches for 2.0.1 and 2.1.1. I think we did so for 2.0
and 2.1 but I don't remember. HP-UX 11.00 with threads works fine for
us.

-- 
albert chin (china at thewrittenword dot com)