Builing Python 2.6 on AIX 5.2

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On Oct 6, 11:03 am, "Jesse Noller" <jnol... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks like AIX is missing sem_timedwait - see:http://bugs.python.org/issue3876
>
> Please add your error to the bug report just so I can track it.
>
> -jesse
>
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:16 AM, brasse <thebra... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello!
>
> > I am having some trouble building Python 2.6 on AIX. The steps I have
> > taken are:
>
> > export PATH=/usr/bin/:/usr/vacpp/bin/
> > ./configure --with-gcc=xlc_r --with-cxx=xlC_r --disable-ipv6
> > make
>
> > This is the error message I'm seeing:
> > ./Modules/ld_so_aix xlc_r -bI:Modules/python.exp build/
> > temp.aix-5.2-2.6/home/mabr/Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/
> > multiprocessing.o build/temp.aix-5.2-2.6/home/mabr/Python-2.6/Modules/
> > _multiprocessing/socket_connection.o build/temp.aix-5.2-2.6/home/mabr/
> > Python-2.6/Modules/_multiprocessing/semaphore.o -L/usr/local/lib -o
> > build/lib.aix-5.2-2.6/_multiprocessing.so
> > ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .sem_timedwait
> > ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .CMSG_SPACE
> > ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .CMSG_LEN
> > ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more
> > information.
> > *** WARNING: renaming "_multiprocessing" since importing it failed: No
> > such file or directory
> > error: No such file or directory
> > make: The error code from the last command is 1.
>
> > Have someone on this list had similar problems? Am I missing some
> > libraries? The configure script runs without errors, I would have
> > expected some kind of error there if I was missing something.
>
> > Regards,
> > Mattias
> > --
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FYI
I read that some people use:
HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES in pyconfig.h.

for AIX, although I never do. Maybe I am not doing anything advanced
enough for problems related to semaphores to show up.