build problem: Python 2.1 on IRIX

[Mats Wichmann]

On Tue, 08 May 2001 16:20:08 GMT, xyzmats at laplaza.org (Mats Wichmann)
wrote:

>I've got an old SGI Indy (IRIX 6.2) that I keep around for some
>testing purposes.  Trying to build up 2.1 I ran into some trouble -
>wondering if anyone has any thoughts.... the binary and libraries
>built okay, but the setup.py step tipped over as in the following
>snippet.   

Okay, I've made some progress the old fashinoned way: if in doubt,
build a fresh copy of gcc.  Now running gcc 2.95.3 (was
2.8.something), the previous problem went away, but the build still
tips over building the extension shared libraries

That can be fixed fairly easily, though...the linker should not be
called directly, it should be called through gcc.

There's a "bug" in configure/configure.in that ends up with the wrong
linker invocation on an IRIX 6 machine *if* the compiler is gcc.  If I
can sort out the SourceForge intricacies I'll post a bugreport.