had troubles building python on various platforms (using gcc-4.0.0 and binutils-2.16.90.0.3): a) Makefile.pre.in had to change (LINKCC)(LINKCC) (LINKCC)(LDFLAGS) (LINKFORSHARED)−o(LINKFORSHARED) -o (LINKFORSHARED)−o@ \ to (CXX)(CXX) (CXX)(LDFLAGS) (LINKFORSHARED)−o(LINKFORSHARED) -o (LINKFORSHARED)−o@ \ for the $(BUILDPYTHON) target. LINKCC was ok for sparc and x86_64 cpus, but *NOT* ok on intel (x86) cpus (solaris AND linux os!). the following error is gone now (using CXX): Modules/ccpython.o:(.eh_frame+0x12): undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0' seems that ccpython.cc is c++ code and so python needs libstdc++ (for some reason only on the intel (x86) cpu. the cleanest way to include that lib is to use g++ instead of gcc. (i dont know wether you need the PURIFY var as well...). b) configure.in: i had to change -ltermcap to -lncurses. otherwise the readline lib on all of my systems was not found. maybe it should be checked in configure wether readline needs termcap or ncurses or none of the libs. c) unfort all my add libs are not in the std include/lib path, neither in /usr/local. so i had to "tune" setup.py. i just changed the lines add_dir_to_list(self.compiler.library_dirs, '/usr/local/lib') add_dir_to_list(self.compiler.include_dirs, '/usr/local/include') which is a bad solution. it would be much easier to have variables like LIBDIR and INCLUDEDIR (maybe SYSTEM_LIBDIR, SYSTEM_INCLUDEDIR?) which could be defined as variables or within System.local. the cleanest solution imho would be to use CFLAGS, LDFLAGS and LIBS when building the modules. hope this helps, niki
