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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1996-08-09 14:38:22 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1996-08-09 14:38:22 (GMT) |
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diff --git a/Misc/AIX-NOTES b/Misc/AIX-NOTES deleted file mode 100644 index 97c0944..0000000 --- a/Misc/AIX-NOTES +++ /dev/null @@ -1,61 +0,0 @@ -[Excerpt from an email describing how to build Python on AIX.] - - -Subject: Re: Python 1.0.0 BETA 5 -- also for Macintosh! -From: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) -To: Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl -Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 17:40:43 +0100 - -[...] - -The following are [...] Instructions -to get a clean compile using gcc and xlc -under AIX 3.2.4. - -Since I wanted to make sure that Python compiles -using both compilers and several sets of options -(ANSI and traditional C, optimize on/off) I didn't -try to include bash readline or other optional -modules. - -'make test' succeeded using Python compiled with -the AIX C-compiler invoked as 'cc' and with options -'-o -qMEMMAX=4000' and compiled with 'gcc' and -options '-O -Wall'. - -There were some problems trying to compile python -using 'gcc -ansi' (because of _AIX no longer being -defined), but I didn't have time to look into this. - - - -Regards, - -Stefan Esser - - - - -REQUIRED: ---------- - -1) AIX compilers don't like the LANG env - varaiable set to european locales. - This makes the compiler generate floating - point constants using "," as the decimal - seperator, which the assembler doesnt't - understand (or was it the other way around, - with the assembler expecting "," in float - numbers ???). - Anyway: "LANG=C; export LANG" solves the - problem, as does "LANG=C $(MAKE) ..." in - the master Makefile. - -OPTIONAL: ---------- - -2) The xlc compiler considers "Python/ceval.c" - too complex to optimize, except when invoked - with "-qMEMMAX=4000". - -[...] |