From: Thomas Wouters <thomas@python.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:10:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Expand the blob on Solaris to mention passing '-Xc' to compile Python
X-Git-Tag: v2.1.1c1~1
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Expand the blob on Solaris to mention passing '-Xc' to compile Python
correctly. Note that 'faulty' should actually be spelled 'fawlty', but I
don't want those bugreports assigned to me ;)
---

diff --git a/README b/README
index 1d9e2ad61ed3..9cc5de7e7b82 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -224,11 +224,12 @@ above) so we can remove them!)
 	contain code that is quite wordsize sensitive.  (If you have a
 	fix, let us know!)
 
-Solaris: When using Sun's C compiler with threads, at least on Solaris
-	2.5.1, you need to add the "-mt" compiler option (the simplest
-	way is probably to specify the compiler with this option as
-	the "CC" environment variable when running the configure
-	script).
+Solaris: When using Sun's C compiler, it's necessary to compile in
+        strict ANSI mode with multithreading enabled. This can be done
+        by setting the 'CC' environment variable to 'cc -Xc -mt'
+        before running the configure script. ANSI-compatibility mode
+        ('-Xa') has been seen to compile the code without problems,
+        but generate faulty code.
 
 Linux:  A problem with threads and fork() was tracked down to a bug in
 	the pthreads code in glibc version 2.0.5; glibc version 2.0.7