Compiling Python using the Portland Group compiler

[Nick Vatamaniuc]

Konrad,
I would  try to find out if pgcc has any compatibility switches. I saw
you turned optimization "off" but sometimes there is more you can do
disable some of the advanced behind the scenes magic. So apply all
those switches, run the tests and then try them one by one to find out
how many you can enable before test fail again. If you compiled it as
64bit application, try to compile as a regular 32bit and see what
happens.
Nick V.


Konrad Hinsen wrote:
> I am trying to install Python 2.4.3 on an AMD Opteron system using
> the Portland Group's compiler (pgcc). Using
>
> CC="pgcc -DNCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H=0" OPT="-O0" LINKFORSHARED="-Wl,-
> export-dynamic" ./configure --without-cxx
>
> I finally managed to obtain an executable that would start and work,
> but it fails a couple of test cases:
>
> 1) test_coercion reports wrong results for operations with complex
> numbers. For example,
> 2**(2.+0j) yields (1+0j).
>
> 2) test_compare reports some wrong results, such as
>
> 	(2+0j) != (2+0j)
>
> However, typing
>
> 	(2+0j) == (2+0j)
>
> into the interpreter yields "True". Perhaps the bug is in the
> execution of the test suite.
>
> 3) test_compile reports wrong results as well:
>
> test test_compile failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/work/experiences/biophys/hinsen/install/Python-2.4.3/Lib/
> test/test_compile.py", line 164, in test_literals_with_leading_zeroes
>      self.assertEqual(eval("0777j"), 777j)
> AssertionError: 777j != 777j
>
> However,
> 	eval("0777j") == 777j
> yields "True".
>
> 4) test_cpickle crashes with a segmentation fault.
>
>
> Has anyone encountered such failures before? Does anyone have useful
> suggestions for analyzing them?
>
> Konrad.
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