Building Python 2.5.2 for Itanium

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Lo and behold! --
> 
> Performing Custom Build Step
> '.\make_versioninfo.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external
> command,
> operable program or batch file.
> Project : error PRJ0019: A tool returned an error code from
> "Performing Custom Build Step"

Hmm. make_versioninfo.exe should *not* be compiled with the Itanium
compiler - it should be an x86 binary.

> I had to manually build make_version.exe, which seems to have
> generated those fields.  I'm not sure what the problem was with the
> build of make_version.  The only error I could find was "unable to
> create response file."

Unfortunately, debugging vsextcomp is quite tricky. Python was its
only application ever, so it hasn't seen much testing.

> I am now looking into getting ctypes to build correctly.  My
> investigations show that ctypes supports ia64, so I may be able to
> make some progress on this front.

Good luck!

Martin