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@@ -242,7 +242,8 @@ architecture, and in each directory run the configure script (on the appropriate machine with the appropriate options). This creates the necessary subdirectories and the Makefiles therein. The Makefiles contain a line VPATH=... which points to directory containing the -actual sources. +actual sources. (On SGI systems, use "smake" instead of "make" if you +use VPATH -- don't try gnumake.) For example, the following is all you need to build a minimal Python in /usr/tmp/python (assuming ~guido/src/python is the toplevel @@ -256,13 +257,6 @@ directory and you want to build in /usr/tmp/python): [...] $ -To use the readline library in this case, you will have to create a -subdirectory of your build directory called readline, copy -readline/Makefile into it, edit the Makefile to contain a proper VPATH -line (and possibly edit the compiler flags set in the Makefile), and -pass the configure script a --with-readline=DIRECTORY option giving it -the absolute (!) pathname of the readline build directory. - Note that Modules/Makefile copies the original Setup file to the build directory if it finds no Setup file there. This means that you can edit the Setup file for each architecture independently. For this |