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| -rw-r--r-- | Include/pyport.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Python/thread.c | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 20 |
4 files changed, 37 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Include/pyport.h b/Include/pyport.h index f71b9f4..2440c55 100644 --- a/Include/pyport.h +++ b/Include/pyport.h @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ extern "C" { * This isn't reliable. See Py_OVERFLOWED comments. * X is evaluated more than once. */ -#if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__OpenBSD__) +#if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__OpenBSD__) || (defined(__hpux) && defined(__ia64)) #define _Py_SET_EDOM_FOR_NAN(X) if (isnan(X)) errno = EDOM; #else #define _Py_SET_EDOM_FOR_NAN(X) ; @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1? Core and builtins ----------------- +- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 on + Itanium2 with HP's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1225212). + - Disallow keyword arguments for type constructors that don't use them (fixes bug #1119418). diff --git a/Python/thread.c b/Python/thread.c index 4c0edfb..5e7fc6c 100644 --- a/Python/thread.c +++ b/Python/thread.c @@ -45,6 +45,20 @@ #define SUN_LWP #endif +/* Check if we're running on HP-UX and _SC_THREADS is defined. If so, then + enough of the Posix threads package is implimented to support python + threads. + + This is valid for HP-UX 11.23 running on an ia64 system. If needed, add + a check of __ia64 to verify that we're running on a ia64 system instead + of a pa-risc system. +*/ +#ifdef __hpux +#ifdef _SC_THREADS +#define _POSIX_THREADS +#endif +#endif + #endif /* _POSIX_THREADS */ @@ -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 |