[ python-Bugs-1070140 ] endianness detection fails on IRIX 5.3

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Bugs item #1070140, was opened at 2004-11-20 20:01
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Category: Installation
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Georg Schwarz (gschwarz)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: endianness detection fails on IRIX 5.3

Initial Comment:
Configuring python 2.3.4 on IRIX 5.3 fails as follows:

checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... unknown
configure: error: unknown endianness
presetting ac_cv_c_bigendian=no (or yes) will help
*** Error code 1

The problem is that the respective defines are in sys/
endian.h, which is not being included in the test code.


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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2005-01-29 15:22

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Unfortunately, there is not much we can do about this (with
acceptable efforts); we use the AC_C_BIGENDIAN macro of
autoconf which probably needs to be changed.

It would be best if you could report this problem to autoconf.

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