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

[Guido van Rossum]

I've no time to research this further right now, so I'm forwarding
Anders' mail here.  It seems that Martin disagrees with Pike's
solution though.

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

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Date:    Sun, 06 Oct 2002 22:03:57 +0200
From:    Anders Qvist <quest@lysator.liu.se>
To:      Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Subject: Re: [snake-farm] Autodetect /usr/ccs/bin?

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 09:29:24AM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> [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.

Apparently, the pike people do this. They seem to think it's the right
thing to do. From their configure.in:

  case "$pike_cv_sys_os" in
    ...
    Solaris) LDSHARED="/usr/ccs/bin/ld -G";;
    ...

They also add it to their PATH during various circumstances. Have a
look at:

http://community.roxen.com/_internal/cvsview!0/8223/1.633/0/configure.in
- -- 
Anders "Quest" Qvist

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will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks 
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