Any AIX experts out there?

[Harry George]

"Donn Cave" <donn at u.washington.edu> writes:

> Quoth Laura Creighton <lac at strakt.com>:
> | The Snake Farm is having trouble building Python on AIX.
> | See: http://lists.lysator.liu.se/pipermail/snake-farm/2003-January/000654.html
> |
> | Does anybody recognise these symptoms?
> 
> No.  As Neal surmises, a problem with the host is as likely as anything
> else - we have a number of AIX boxes here and I wouldn't touch installation
> or maintenance of the IBM software with a stick, leave that to specialists
> and keep an eye out for problems anyway.
> 
> I configured 2.2.1 with platform type rs6000-ibm-aix4.1,
> OPT='-O2 -qmaxmem=8192', CC=cc and --with-cxx=no.
> 
> 	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu

I just compiled Python2.2.2 on AIX yesterday.  Worked fine, though it
was pretty big -- 7MB, but that included tkinter.  Used gcc 2.95.3.
Used ./configure --prefix=... --with-gcc.  Configure got everything
else right.

I agree that AIX is a tricky world for OSS.  Sometimes I have to use
the vendor compiler (xlC), sometimes the libraries are hard to find,
sometimes it just doesn't build, etc.  




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