[Python-Dev] Python 1.6 & Distutils 0.9.1: success (original) (raw)

Greg Ward gward@mems-exchange.org
Wed, 16 Aug 2000 13:34:02 -0400

[oops, screwed up the cc: python-dev when I sent this to Fred. let's try again, shall we?]

Hi Fred --

I went ahead and tried out the current cnri-16-start branch on Solaris 2.6. (I figured you guys are all using Linux by now, so you might want to hear back how it works on Solaris.)

In short: no problem! It built, tested, and installed just fine.

Oops, just noticed that my configure.in fix from late May didn't make the cut:

revision 1.124 date: 2000/05/26 12:22:54; author: gward; state: Exp; lines: +6 -2 When building on Solaris and the compiler is GCC, use '$(CC) -G' to create shared extensions rather than 'ld -G'. This ensures that shared extensions link against libgcc.a, in case there are any functions in the GCC runtime not already in the Python core.

Oh well. This means that Robin Dunn's bsddb extension won't work with Python 1.6 under Solaris.

So then I tried Distutils 0.9.1 with the new build: again, it worked just fine. I was able to build and install the Distutils proper, and then NumPy. And I made a NumPy source dist. Looks like it works just fine, although this is hardly a rigorous test (sigh).

I'd say go ahead and release Distutils 0.9.1 with Python 1.6...

    Greg

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