[Python-Dev] Re: [snake-farm] Autodetect /usr/ccs/bin? (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
06 Oct 2002 21:53:38 +0200

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

> Several machines in the snake farm fail to build libpython2.3 because > they don't have ar in their path. ar, ld and the like live in > /usr/ccs/bin, which seems to be some kind of standard (for generous > values of standard) as both SunOS 5.8, AIX 4.3 and HP/UX 11.00 seems > ot have this dir. > > Should the configure script try with /usr/ccs/bin/ar and ld if none is > explicitly supplied?

This may be a good idea, but I don't know zit about this area. I'm cc'ing python-dev, maybeo someone there understands this.

Trying ar from /usr/ccs/bin might be reasonable, but it must try ar from PATH before that.

I fail to see what common scenario this would fail for, though: If you don't have ar(1) in your path, how do you find make(1)?

In no case configure should try /usr/ccs/bin/ld: Invoking ld directly is always incorrect (except for archaic systems).

Regards, Martin