From d92562041f3535cf5a4a4c09cb6bde608c94a844 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Wouters Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:10:55 +0000 Subject: Expand the blob on Solaris to mention passing '-Xc' to compile Python correctly. Note that 'faulty' should actually be spelled 'fawlty', but I don't want those bugreports assigned to me ;) --- README | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 1d9e2ad..9cc5de7 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -224,11 +224,12 @@ above) so we can remove them!) contain code that is quite wordsize sensitive. (If you have a fix, let us know!) -Solaris: When using Sun's C compiler with threads, at least on Solaris - 2.5.1, you need to add the "-mt" compiler option (the simplest - way is probably to specify the compiler with this option as - the "CC" environment variable when running the configure - script). +Solaris: When using Sun's C compiler, it's necessary to compile in + strict ANSI mode with multithreading enabled. This can be done + by setting the 'CC' environment variable to 'cc -Xc -mt' + before running the configure script. ANSI-compatibility mode + ('-Xa') has been seen to compile the code without problems, + but generate faulty code. Linux: A problem with threads and fork() was tracked down to a bug in the pthreads code in glibc version 2.0.5; glibc version 2.0.7 -- cgit v0.12