[Python-Dev] Re: [snake-farm] Autodetect /usr/ccs/bin?

[Guido van Rossum]

[Anders Qvist]
> Several machines in the snake farm fail to build libpython2.3 because
> they don't have ar in their path. ar, ld and the like live in
> /usr/ccs/bin, which seems to be some kind of standard (for generous
> values of standard) as both SunOS 5.8, AIX 4.3 and HP/UX 11.00 seems
> ot have this dir.
> 
> Should the configure script try with /usr/ccs/bin/ar and ld if none is
> explicitly supplied?

This may be a good idea, but I don't know zit about this area.  I'm
cc'ing python-dev, maybeo someone there understands this.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)