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

[Martin v. Loewis]

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

> > 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.

Trying ar from /usr/ccs/bin might be reasonable, but it *must* try
ar from PATH before that.

I fail to see what common scenario this would fail for, though: If you
don't have ar(1) in your path, how do you find make(1)?

In no case configure should try /usr/ccs/bin/ld: Invoking ld directly
is always incorrect (except for archaic systems).

Regards,
Martin