1 [Excerpt from an email describing how to build Python on AIX.]
4 Subject: Re: Python 1.0.0 BETA 5 -- also for Macintosh!
5 From: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
6 To: Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl
7 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 17:40:43 +0100
11 The following are [...] Instructions
12 to get a clean compile using gcc and xlc
15 Since I wanted to make sure that Python compiles
16 using both compilers and several sets of options
17 (ANSI and traditional C, optimize on/off) I didn't
18 try to include bash readline or other optional
21 'make test' succeeded using Python compiled with
22 the AIX C-compiler invoked as 'cc' and with options
23 '-o -qMEMMAX=4000' and compiled with 'gcc' and
26 There were some problems trying to compile python
27 using 'gcc -ansi' (because of _AIX no longer being
28 defined), but I didn't have time to look into this.
42 1) AIX compilers don't like the LANG env
43 varaiable set to european locales.
44 This makes the compiler generate floating
45 point constants using "," as the decimal
46 seperator, which the assembler doesnt't
47 understand (or was it the other way around,
48 with the assembler expecting "," in float
50 Anyway: "LANG=C; export LANG" solves the
51 problem, as does "LANG=C $(MAKE) ..." in
57 2) The xlc compiler considers "Python/ceval.c"
58 too complex to optimize, except when invoked