summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/README
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2005-09-14 17:49:54 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2005-09-14 17:49:54 (GMT)
commit539c662f10b41d15f658cabfa03cc02902862adc (patch)
tree4df533b4d47a5481832638a22a7225499ca67591 /README
parent3fbf3204c5526589eeedf6413a3875a0fdd2f25d (diff)
downloadcpython-539c662f10b41d15f658cabfa03cc02902862adc.zip
cpython-539c662f10b41d15f658cabfa03cc02902862adc.tar.gz
cpython-539c662f10b41d15f658cabfa03cc02902862adc.tar.bz2
- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 on
Itanium2 with HP's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1225212).
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
-rw-r--r--README20
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index 07a38a0..df92b9f 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -368,7 +368,25 @@ HP-UX ia64: When building on the ia64 (Itanium) platform using HP's
compiler, some experience has shown that the compiler's
optimiser produces a completely broken version of python
(see http://www.python.org/sf/814976). To work around this,
- edit the Makefile and remove -O from the OPT line.
+ edit the Makefile and remove -O from the OPT line. (This is
+ old information; with the latest compiler this problem does
+ not occur.)
+
+ To build a 64-bit executable on an Itanium 2 system using HP's
+ compiler, use these environment variables:
+
+ CC=cc
+ CXX=aCC
+ BASECFLAGS="+DD64"
+ LDFLAGS="+DD64 -lxnet"
+
+ and call configure as:
+
+ ./configure --without-gcc
+
+ then *unset* the environment variables again before running
+ make. (At least one of these flags causes the build to fail
+ if it remains set.)
HP PA-RISC 2.0: A recent bug report (http://www.python.org/sf/546117)
suggests that the C compiler in this 64-bit system has bugs