[issue26466] cannot build python 2.7.11 on AIX

[Michael Felt]

Michael Felt added the comment:

It worked fine using xlc with 2.7.10 (verified again today).

The delta between ceval.c in 2.7.10 and 2.7.11 is large.

make.out (excerpt) 2.7.10:

        rm -f libpython2.7.a
        ar rc libpython2.7.a Modules/getbuildinfo.o
        ar rc libpython2.7.a Parser/acceler.o  Parser/grammar1.o  Parser/listnode.o  Parser/node.o  Parser/parser.o  Parser/parsetok.o  Parser/bitset.o  Parser/metagrammar.o
Parser/firstsets.o  Parser/grammar.o  Parser/pgen.o Parser/myreadline.o Parser/tokenizer.o
        ar rc libpython2.7.a Objects/abstract.o  Objects/boolobject.o  Objects/bufferobject.o  Objects/bytes_methods.o  Objects/bytearrayobject.o  Objects/capsule.o  Objects/c
ellobject.o  Objects/classobject.o  Objects/cobject.o  Objects/codeobject.o  Objects/complexobject.o  Objects/descrobject.o  Objects/enumobject.o  Objects/exceptions.o  Object
s/genobject.o  Objects/fileobject.o  Objects/floatobject.o  Objects/frameobject.o  Objects/funcobject.o  Objects/intobject.o  Objects/iterobject.o  Objects/listobject.o  Objec
ts/longobject.o  Objects/dictobject.o  Objects/memoryobject.o  Objects/methodobject.o  Objects/moduleobject.o  Objects/object.o  Objects/obmalloc.o  Objects/rangeobject.o  Obj
ects/setobject.o  Objects/sliceobject.o  Objects/stringobject.o  Objects/structseq.o  Objects/tupleobject.o  Objects/typeobject.o  Objects/weakrefobject.o  Objects/unicodeobje
ct.o Objects/unicodectype.o
        ar rc libpython2.7.a Python/_warnings.o  Python/Python-ast.o  Python/asdl.o  Python/ast.o  Python/bltinmodule.o  Python/ceval.o  Python/compile.o  Python/codecs.o  Pyt
hon/errors.o  Python/frozen.o  Python/frozenmain.o  Python/future.o  Python/getargs.o  Python/getcompiler.o  Python/getcopyright.o  Python/getplatform.o  Python/getversion.o
Python/graminit.o  Python/import.o  Python/importdl.o  Python/marshal.o  Python/modsupport.o  Python/mystrtoul.o  Python/mysnprintf.o  Python/peephole.o  Python/pyarena.o  Pyt
hon/pyctype.o  Python/pyfpe.o  Python/pymath.o  Python/pystate.o  Python/pythonrun.o  Python/random.o  Python/structmember.o  Python/symtable.o  Python/sysmodule.o  Python/tra
ceback.o  Python/getopt.o  Python/pystrcmp.o  Python/pystrtod.o  Python/dtoa.o  Python/formatter_unicode.o  Python/formatter_string.o  Python/dynload_shlib.o      Python/threa
d.o
        ar rc libpython2.7.a Modules/config.o  Modules/getpath.o  Modules/main.o  Modules/gcmodule.o
        ar rc libpython2.7.a Modules/threadmodule.o  Modules/signalmodule.o  Modules/posixmodule.o  Modules/errnomodule.o  Modules/pwdmodule.o  Modules/_sre.o  Modules/_codecs
module.o  Modules/_weakref.o  Modules/zipimport.o  Modules/symtablemodule.o  Modules/xxsubtype.o
        ranlib libpython2.7.a
        ./Modules/makexp_aix Modules/python.exp . libpython2.7.a;  xlc  -Wl,-bE:Modules/python.exp -lld -o python  Modules/python.o  libpython2.7.a -ldl  -lpthread   -lm
         ./python -E -S -m sysconfig --generate-posix-vars ; if test $? -ne 0 ; then  echo "generate-posix-vars failed" ;  rm -f ./pybuilddir.txt ;  exit 1 ;  fi
running build

tail make.out (2.7.11)
rm -f libpython2.7.a
ar rc libpython2.7.a Modules/getbuildinfo.o
ar rc libpython2.7.a Parser/acceler.o Parser/grammar1.o Parser/listnode.o Parser/node.o Parser/parser.o Parser/parsetok.o Parser/bitset.o Parser/metagrammar.o Parser/firstsets
.o Parser/grammar.o Parser/pgen.o Parser/myreadline.o Parser/tokenizer.o
ar rc libpython2.7.a Objects/abstract.o Objects/boolobject.o Objects/bufferobject.o Objects/bytes_methods.o Objects/bytearrayobject.o Objects/capsule.o Objects/cellobject.o Ob
jects/classobject.o Objects/cobject.o Objects/codeobject.o Objects/complexobject.o Objects/descrobject.o Objects/enumobject.o Objects/exceptions.o Objects/genobject.o Objects/
fileobject.o Objects/floatobject.o Objects/frameobject.o Objects/funcobject.o Objects/intobject.o Objects/iterobject.o Objects/listobject.o Objects/longobject.o Objects/dictob
ject.o Objects/memoryobject.o Objects/methodobject.o Objects/moduleobject.o Objects/object.o Objects/obmalloc.o Objects/rangeobject.o Objects/setobject.o Objects/sliceobject.o
 Objects/stringobject.o Objects/structseq.o Objects/tupleobject.o Objects/typeobject.o Objects/weakrefobject.o Objects/unicodeobject.o Objects/unicodectype.o
ar rc libpython2.7.a Python/_warnings.o Python/Python-ast.o Python/asdl.o Python/ast.o Python/bltinmodule.o Python/ceval.o Python/compile.o Python/codecs.o Python/errors.o Pyt
hon/frozen.o Python/frozenmain.o Python/future.o Python/getargs.o Python/getcompiler.o Python/getcopyright.o Python/getplatform.o Python/getversion.o Python/graminit.o Python/
import.o Python/importdl.o Python/marshal.o Python/modsupport.o Python/mystrtoul.o Python/mysnprintf.o Python/peephole.o Python/pyarena.o Python/pyctype.o Python/pyfpe.o Pytho
n/pymath.o Python/pystate.o Python/pythonrun.o Python/random.o Python/structmember.o Python/symtable.o Python/sysmodule.o Python/traceback.o Python/getopt.o Python/pystrcmp.o
Python/pystrtod.o Python/dtoa.o Python/formatter_unicode.o Python/formatter_string.o Python/dynload_shlib.o   Python/thread.o
ar rc libpython2.7.a Modules/config.o Modules/getpath.o Modules/main.o Modules/gcmodule.o
ar rc libpython2.7.a Modules/threadmodule.o  Modules/signalmodule.o  Modules/posixmodule.o  Modules/errnomodule.o  Modules/pwdmodule.o  Modules/_sre.o  Modules/_codecsmodule.o
  Modules/_weakref.o  Modules/zipimport.o  Modules/symtablemodule.o  Modules/xxsubtype.o
ranlib libpython2.7.a
./Modules/makexp_aix Modules/python.exp . libpython2.7.a;  xlc  -Wl,-bE:Modules/python.exp -lld -o python \
                Modules/python.o \
                libpython2.7.a -ldl  -lpthread   -lm

If -Wl,something was a structural problem I would have quit xlc (and perhaps AIX) years ago.

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