Help Compiling 64bit Python

[John Abel]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>John Abel <john.abel at pa.press.net> writes:
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>>>>c++   -o python \
>>>>               Modules/python.o \
>>>>               libpython2.3.a -lresolv -lsocket -lnsl -lrt -ldl
>>>>-lpthread   -lm
>>>>        
>>>>
>[...]
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>>I seem to be missing something really obvious here.  I've modified the
>>Makefile so it looks like this:
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>>CONFIG_ARGS=     'CC=gcc -mcpu=v9 -m64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE=1'
>>'LDFLAGS=-mcpu=v9 -m64'
>>
>>ran the make, and it still comes up with the same error.  I've even
>>tried running it with LDFLAGS=-64, with the same result.
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>The really obvious thing you are missing is that "c++" is used to link
>python, so setting "CC" has no effect.
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>I really encourage you to read the Makefile.
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>Regards,
>Martin
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Sorted.  I ended up setting the following:

export CC="gcc -mcpu=v9 -m64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE=1"
export LDFLAGS='-mcpu=v9 -m64'
export LDDFLAGS='-mcpu=v9 -m64 -G'

Thanks to Martin for the pointers.

Regards

John