On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:34, Jesus Cea
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A Solaris installation contains ALWAYS 32 and 64 bits libraries. So in any Solaris you can run 32/64 bits programs, and compile in 32 and 64 bits.
For this, libraries are stores in "/usr/lib", for instance, for 32 bits, while the same 64 bits libraries are stored in "/usr/lib/64".
Currently, python do not considerate this.
We have Solaris 10 buildslaves, but they compile in 32 bits, aparently. For instance http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/sparc%20solaris10%20gcc%203.....
We now have 32 and 64 bits OpenIndiana buildslaves, so we can actually check this. They were deployed yesterday.
Apparently the changes would be pretty simple, adding ".../64" to library paths, to try to find the extra libraries.
What do you think?.
Are you asking about buildbots only or as a general policy? If you are asking about the buildbots then I definitely think we should use 64 bits. If you are asking about policy I would say it should be an option in case people are using C extensions that are not designed to work with 64 bits.