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+[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". 
+
+[...]