[tbox-l] Python2.4

[Ralf U. <Ral...@Ph...>]

Hi,

has anybody already tried to compile Python2.4 on AIX?
In the end what I would need is a 64-bit version, but I start
with the standard 32bit one ;-)

1. Needed the following patch for configure (to get cc_r as default
and to avoid one error from configure)

*** ../tmp/Python-2.4/configure Sun Nov  7 02:24:12 2004
--- configure   Fri Dec 10 14:00:18 2004
***************
*** 1615,1617 ****
         case $withval in
!       no)     CC=cc
                 without_gcc=yes;;
--- 1615,1617 ----
         case $withval in
!       no)     CC=cc_r
                 without_gcc=yes;;
***************
*** 18875,18877 ****
     if test "$unicode_size" = "$ac_cv_sizeof_wchar_t" \
!           -a "$ac_cv_wchar_t_signed" == "no"
     then
--- 18875,18877 ----
     if test "$unicode_size" = "$ac_cv_sizeof_wchar_t" \
!           -a "$ac_cv_wchar_t_signed" = "no"
     then

2. I have  /usr/vacpp/bin:/usr/linux/bin in the PATH and lot's of toolkit
packages installed.
Run configure as:

/bin/bash ./configure --without-gcc --with-cxx=xlC_r --enable-shared \
   CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash \
   CC=cc_r \
   CXX=xlC_r \
   AR=/usr/bin/ar \
   RANLIB=/usr/bin/ranlib \
   OPT="-O -qmaxmem=-1 -DAIX_GENUINE_CPLUSPLUS"

Two compile problems:
1. with cjkcodecs
log:
building '_codecs_cn' extension
cc_r -DNDEBUG -O -qmaxmem=-1 -DAIX_GENUINE_CPLUSPLUS -I. 
-I/ltmp/ralfu/Python-2.4-32/./Include -I/usr/local/include 
-I/ltmp/ralfu/Python-2.4-32/Include -I/ltmp/ralfu/Python-2.4-32 -c 
/ltmp/ralfu/Python-2.4-32/Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_cn.c -o 
build/temp.aix-5.1-2.4/_codecs_cn.o
"/ltmp/ralfu/Python-2.4-32/Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_cn.c", line 431.3: 
1506-206 (S) Suffix of integer constant 100_encode is not valid.
"/ltmp/ralfu/Python-2.4-32/Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_cn.c", line 431.3: 
1506-196 (W) Initialization between types "int(*)(union {...}*,const 
void*,const unsigned short**,unsigned long,unsigned char**,unsigned 
long,int)" and "int" is not allowed.

This one I just ignored, the make continues.

2. with tkinter

building '_tkinter' extension
./Modules/ld_so_aix cc_r -bI:Modules/python.exp 
build/temp.aix-5.1-2.4/_tkinter.o build/temp.aix-5.1-2.4/tkappinit.o 
-L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/lib -ltk8.3 -ltcl8.3 
-lX11 -o build/lib.aix-5.1-2.4/_tkinter.so
ld: 0706-006 Cannot find or open library file: -l tk8.3
         ld:open(): No such file or directory
ld: 0706-006 Cannot find or open library file: -l tcl8.3
         ld:open(): No such file or directory
*** WARNING: renaming "_tkinter" since importing it failed: No such file 
or directory
error: No such file or directory
make: *** [sharedmods] Error 1

This one I got over with linking by hand  using 'cc_r -G' instead of
./Modules/ld_so_aix cc_r -bI:Modules/python.exp

[BTW: could one not use -G for all of this ld_so_aix stuff?]

Then I run make test and it ends with:
249 tests OK.
6 tests failed:
     test_codecencodings_cn test_grp test_mmap test_multibytecodec
     test_pty test_pwd
35 tests skipped:
     test_aepack test_al test_applesingle test_bsddb185 test_bsddb3
     test_cd test_cl test_codecmaps_cn test_codecmaps_hk
     test_codecmaps_jp test_codecmaps_kr test_codecmaps_tw test_curses
     test_dl test_gl test_imgfile test_largefile test_linuxaudiodev
     test_locale test_macfs test_macostools test_nis test_normalization
     test_ossaudiodev test_pep277 test_plistlib test_scriptpackages
     test_socket_ssl test_socketserver test_sunaudiodev test_timeout
     test_urllib2net test_urllibnet test_winreg test_winsound
Ask someone to teach regrtest.py about which tests are
expected to get skipped on aix5.
make: *** [test] Error 1


However, the resulting executable looks ok.
Any comment?

Regards, Ralf
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