Python-2.2.1, Solaris7, make test fails...

[Martin v. Löwis]

Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs at dmu.ac.uk> writes:

>         [*shared*, *static* intereaved]
> 
> But to change the wording one needs to know which of the above
> properties are reversed, and how commenting out modules affects them in
> each case.

I'm not sure what your question is. The build process of Python works
that way:

1. Build all modules that are declared as static in Modules/Setup,
   combine them into libpythonxy.a, combine that into python.
2. Build all modules that are listed as shared in Modules/Setup.
3. Invoke setup.py. That builds all modules that
   a) are not builtin, and
   b) are not listed in Modules/Setup
   c) can be build on the target

So the property that is being reversed is 'build as static'.

> So the fastest fix is for me to doengrade binutils?

No. The fastest fix is to apply the patch below, and rerun configure.

Regards,
Martin

Index: configure
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/configure,v
retrieving revision 1.279.6.4
retrieving revision 1.279.6.5
diff -u -r1.279.6.4 -r1.279.6.5
--- configure	22 Mar 2002 11:22:24 -0000	1.279.6.4
+++ configure	18 Apr 2002 14:55:05 -0000	1.279.6.5
@@ -3277,7 +3277,7 @@
 		fi;;
 	SunOS/5*) case $CC in
 		  *gcc*)
-		    if $CC -Xlinker -V 2>&1 | grep BFD >/dev/null
+		    if $CC -Xlinker --help 2>&1 | grep export-dynamic >/dev/null
 		    then
 			LINKFORSHARED="-Xlinker --export-dynamic"
 		    fi;;