Building Python2.1 - LONG_BIT error message

[Boey Pak Cheong]

Martin von Loewis wrote:

> Boey Pak Cheong <hlboey at pl.jaring.my> writes:
>
> > From my limited knowledge, I looked at pyport.h and figured that
> > LONG_BIT must be defined somewhere else since sizeof(long) is defined as
> >
> > 4. But I just can't figure out where. Has anyone faced this problem and
> > found a solution or workaround. Please help.
>
> That's a bug in the glibc pre-release version that was shipped with
> Redhat 7. You need to update glibc, as Redhat also advises you to do.
>
> Regards,
> Martin

Thanks for the advice. Upgraded glibc and build was successful.

Regards,

P.C. Boey