Compiling Python 2.0 in DEC Alpha?

[Pekko Piirola]

Donn Cave <donn at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> It builds OK for me on roughly the same platform (4.0D).  Standard
> advice for anyone with a build problem is to make sure to start over
> with a virgin source directory, but I have a couple of specific ideas
> for you.

Thanks, it compiles now!  The problems were the flag '-std' and the
conflicting thread definitions.  But they really told me to use all of
those thread options in the README..
 
> Any damage in the compile options will have numerous unpleasant side
> effects; configure will run without any apparent problems, but not
> "nicely".

Well, yes..  I noticed that today.

-- 
Pekko