Greg, This is a *very* typical instance: there is a bug in the way this platform compiles one file. You can't just compile everything the way you compiled Python.

-----Original Message----- From: distutils-sig-admin@python.org [mailto:distutils-sig-admin@python.org]On Behalf Of Greg Ward Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 5:57 AM To: distutils-sig@python.org Subject: Re: [Distutils] Complling on IRIX OS

On 27 January 2000, Curtis Jensen said:

To install on an IRIX OS, sometimes we need to compile with the -o32 flag. I can't seem to find how to do this with distutils. Any ideas?

Hmmm... I just checked the source, and it looks like there is no way to do this right now. ;-( Why do you need to? The Distutils default -- in fact, its *only* behaviour for now -- is to compile extensions the same way you compiled Python itself. I'm a bit fuzzy on the various 32/64 options for the IRIX 6+ compiler, but I expect you'd have a hard time loading .so's compiled one way into an executable compiled another way. What exactly are you trying to accomplish here -- better performance, ability to run on more platforms (ie. 32- and 64-bit IRIX), or what?

Thanks --

Greg

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