Issues compiling 2.6.5 on AIX 6.1

[Stopp, Bryan]

These are good points, but I've fixed the configure & config.guess on
about 10 other OSS projects that I needed to compile on this machine. So
I know that my changes are correct. The changes boil down to:

There are a number of lines in the files that reference AIX versions for
configuring details about the system. Specifically, it'll be "if" or
"case" statements that look like:

*-ibm-aix5*)

*aix4*|*aix5*)

I just add the aix6 clause:

*-ibm-aix5* | *-ibm-aix6*)

*aix4*|*aix5*|*aix6*)

As Aix6 is binary compatible with 5, but the configure defaults it to an
unknown AIX version and completely mis-configures the compiler.

As for using the autoconf tool for my system, I'm not really sure if
it's even installed or if the latest autoconf supports this version.
Oddly enough I'm not the sys admin, but I do play one on TV.

I do want to stick with Python 2.6 if I can, but I will give compiling
2.7 a shot to see what, if anything, changes/is fixed.

Thanks for the feedback!

-B 


-----Original Message-----
From: python-list-bounces+cbds=argushealth.com at python.org
[mailto:python-list-bounces+cbds=argushealth.com at python.org] On Behalf
Of Thomas Jollans
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 11:51 AM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: Issues compiling 2.6.5 on AIX 6.1

On 07/08/2010 04:36 PM, Stopp, Bryan wrote:
> I've seen other threads on this issue, but the resolution still
doesn't
> seem to exist for me.
> 
>  
> 
> I'm running the configure script with these parameters:
> 
>  
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/build/tools \
> 
>             --exec-prefix=/build/tools \
> 
>             --enable-shared \
> 
>             --enable-ipv6 \
> 
>             --with-gcc \
> 
>             --with-pth
> 
>  
> 
> I also want to state that I already edited all of the configure &
> config.guess scripts to comprehend AIX6.1 (they're not updated yet).

This smells horribly like rather risky business. I don't know what you
changed or how experienced you are when it comes to editing these
auto-generated, system-specific files.

Have you tried with Python 2.7, or do you need 2.6? Python 2.7 might
work here?

Since configure and config.guess are auto-generated, maybe you can
regenerate them with a newer/updated version of autoconf that supports
your system.

Quite frankly, it surprises me that changes to configure would be
necessary. Is the system that unusual?

What happens if you --disable-shared ? I expect you want the shared
library, but - does it work?

Just some random thoughts -- I know nothing about AIX and little about
cross-UNIX portability beyond, to an extent, GNU vs BSD.

Cheers,

Thomas

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