Help compiling python on HPUX

Paul D. Lusk plusk at radford.edu
Mon Jan 27 08:43:35 EST 2003


Trent Mick <trentm at ActiveState.com> wrote in
news:mailman.1043440087.31547.python-list at python.org: 

> [Paul D. Lusk wrote]
>> A Google search showed that this problem could be fixed by linking
>> libcl.2 in when building python, but I don't know where to change the
>> makefile to do this. (My C and makefile knowledge is limited,
>> although I did manage to compile GCC 3.2 and python 2.2.2 on my
>> Mandrake 8.2 machine). 
> 
> When you run Python's configure script try adding this option:
>     --with-libs='-lcl'
> 
> Trent
> 

That worked, thanks.

We now have a complete working Python 2.2.2, and also DCOracle2, and 
mx.DateTime and the other non-commercial mx modules working on HPUX.

Paul




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