[Python-Dev] configure problems porting to Tru64

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

  GvR> BTW, the snake farm build for AIX-2-000000042E00-hal now fails
  GvR> like this:

  GvR> ../python/dist/src/Modules/posixmodule.c: In function
  GvR> `posix_fdatasync':
  GvR> ../python/dist/src/Modules/posixmodule.c:902: `fdatasync'
  GvR> undeclared (first use this function)
  GvR> ../python/dist/src/Modules/posixmodule.c:902: (Each undeclared
  GvR> identifier is reported only once
  GvR> ../python/dist/src/Modules/posixmodule.c:902: for each function
  GvR> it appears in.)

(I already mentioned this to Guido, but) This problem has been
occuring on AIX for a while.  It's unrelated to staticforward.

So we've now confirmed that staticforward is unneeded on AIX and
Tru64.  Perhaps MAL would like to find an SCO ODT compiler to try
it out with.

Jeremy