1.5.2 Build Snag

[Robin Boerdijk]

I had a similar problem on SunOS 4.1.3. The problem was that libpython1.5.a
had not been built correctly. It should have contained all the object files
from the Modules directory (including main.o which defines Py_Main) but it
didn't. As a solution, I removed libpython1.5.a from the top level
directory and re-ran make at the top level. It then rebuilt
libpython1.5.a from the ground up, including all object files from the
Modules directory.

Robin

Peter A. Koren <pkoren at hex.net> wrote in message
news:37324DEC.EB54C3C at hex.net...
> Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Charles Y. Choi wrote:
> > > In trying to build Python 1.5.2 on a Sparc Solaris 2.5.1 machine
> > > using gcc 2.8.1 I get this:
> >
> >    I had no problems building on exactly the same environment:
> >
> > >>> python
> > Python 1.5.2 (#1, Apr 15 1999, 12:17:41)  [GCC 2.8.1] on sunos5
> =====================================================================
> I have a similar problem to Charles. I am running (at work) Solaris
> 2.5.1 and gcc 2.7.2.2 and tried to install the Python 1.5.2 source
> tarball. Here is what I get:
>
> ar cr libpython1.5.a getbuildinfo.o
> ranlib libpython1.5.a
> true
> cd Modules;  make OPT="-g -O2" VERSION="1.5" \
>                 prefix="/home/files"
> exec_prefix="/home/files/sun4-solaris2"
> \
>                 LIBRARY=../libpython1.5.a link
> /home/pkoren/bin/gcc   python.o \
>           ../libpython1.5.a   -lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm  -o python
> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> Py_Main                             python.o
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to python
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `link'
> Current working directory /home/files/DOWNLOAD/Python-1.5.2/Modules
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `python'
> Current working directory /home/files/DOWNLOAD/Python-1.5.2
> bash$
>
>
> Any clues?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter Koren
>
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