From: Anthony Baxter Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 07:25:31 +0000 (+0000) Subject: updated HPUX notes. X-Git-Tag: v2.3.2~4 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=73affa949601752b2205b737126c216220d50f57;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git updated HPUX notes. --- diff --git a/README b/README index 45a263bc88b4..1ec190fcc731 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -369,10 +369,14 @@ AIX: A complete overhaul of the shared library support is now in HP-UX: When using threading, you may have to add -D_REENTRANT to the OPT variable in the top-level Makefile; reported by Pat Knight, this seems to make a difference (at least for HP-UX 10.20) - even though pyconfig.h defines it. There appears to be a problem - with HP-UX's interactions with autoconf that causes breakage. - The workaround is to edit the generated pyconfig.h after running - configure - see http://www.python.org/2.3.1/bugs.html for details. + even though pyconfig.h defines it. This seems unnecessary when + using HP/UX 11 and later - threading works "out of the box". + +HP-UX ia64: When building on the ia64 (Itanium) platform using HP's + compiler, some experience has shown that the compiler's + optimiser produces a completely broken version of python + (see http://www.python.org/sf/814976). To work around this, + edit the Makefile and remove -O from the OPT line. HP PA-RISC 2.0: A recent bug report (http://www.python.org/sf/546117) suggests that the C compiler in this 64-bit system has bugs