Solaris 8/x86: Build problems

[Mats Wichmann]

On 17 Jun 2001 13:29:34 +0200, Martin von Loewis
<loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote:

>xyzmats at laplaza.org (Mats Wichmann) writes:
>
>> I'll go back and extricate that soon.  Up until you get to
distutils,
>> all the compile steps spit out for easy capture, but once you get
the
>> the module building phase, it not longer automatically tells you
what
>> each step is doing.
>
>It sure does. To re-run all compilation steps, you have to either
make
>clean, or remove the "build" directory tree. distutils will then
>report any compiler invocation it issues.

And so it does.  

And when I redid it this way to see what was wrong, nothing was wrong
any longer, everything built okay.

I do know what the difference was: the earlier time through, the build
was done with an environment variable "CC=gcc", the second time, where
it worked, that was not set.

Curious (but no more than that, since I now have a working Python 2.1)
why that makes a difference?  I had the "CC=gcc" set while I was doing
"configure" on a whole bunch of packages, Python happened to be just
one of them.


Mats Wichmann

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