Numeric compiling problem under QNX 4.25

[ZMY]

On Apr 3, 10:51 am, Robert Kern <robert.k... at gmail.com> wrote:
> ZMY wrote:
> > Is "ld" part of make command? I am not familiar with compiling with
> > make in general.
>
> No, it's the linker. I takes the object files (.o) which are generated by the
> compiler (cc, I imagine) and links them together into the shared library (.so).
> make is a program that can automate builds given instructions, but Numeric
> doesn't use it, nor do most other Python packages.
>
> > Most other extensions (including math, os, struct, cPickle) from
> > Python 2.2 works when I install python on QNX.
>
> No, I was wondering if you could build any other third-party extension modules.
> Did you install Python from source? When building extension modules, Python uses
> whatever linker was used to build itself.
>
> --
> Robert Kern
>
> "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
>  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
>  an underlying truth."
>   -- Umberto E

Dear Robert,

Looks like you are right. Here is what I got when I compile the
Python2.2 from source (or I believe so):

$ sudo make SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
Password:
case $MAKEFLAGS in \
*-s*) CC='cc' LDSHARED='ld' OPT='-DNDEBUG -O' ./python -E //6/openqnx/
Python-2.2/setup.py -q build;; \
*) CC='cc' LDSHARED='ld' OPT='-DNDEBUG -O' ./python -E //6/openqnx/
Python-2.2/setup.py build;; \
esac
running build
running build_ext
building 'regex' extension
skipping //6/openqnx/Python-2.2/Modules/regexmodule.c (build/temp.qnx-
O-PCI-2.2/regexmodule.o up-to-date)
skipping //6/openqnx/Python-2.2/Modules/regexpr.c (build/temp.qnx-O-
PCI-2.2/regexpr.o up-to-date)
ld build/temp.qnx-O-PCI-2.2/regexmodule.o build/temp.qnx-O-PCI-2.2/
regexpr.o -L/usr/local/lib -o build/lib.qnx-O-PCI-2.2/regex.so
unable to execute ld: No such file or directory
....

If there is no 'ld' linker, what should be used instead??

BTW, the reason I am still using QNX4.25 is because I was trying to
install python on this legacy system. We can't move to QNX6 unless we
want to redo all other code as well, which took 3 years of a good
programmer :-(

- ZMY