From 7c497477765d4e0255cd9675d47275e6eaea7ac1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anthony Baxter Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 07:24:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] updated HPUX notes. --- README | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 8e5264a84a7..5617eb321ec 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -363,11 +363,18 @@ AIX: A complete overhaul of the shared library support is now in like "cc_r". For full C++ module support, set CC="xlC_r" (or CC="xlC" without thread support). -HP-UX: When using threading, you may have to add -D_REENTRANT to the +HP-UX: When using threading, you may have to add -D_REENTRANT to the OPT variable in the top-level Makefile; reported by Pat Knight, this seems to make a difference (at least for HP-UX 10.20) - even though pyconfig.h defines it. Experience seems to show that - building with HP's compiler works best if you set CC="cc -Ae". + even though pyconfig.h defines it. This seems unnecessary when + using HP/UX 11 and later - threading seems to work "out of the + box". + +HP-UX ia64: When building on the ia64 (Itanium) platform using HP's + compiler, some experience has shown that the compiler's + optimiser produces a completely broken version of python + (see http://www.python.org/sf/814976). To work around this, + edit the Makefile and remove -O from the OPT line. HP PA-RISC 2.0: A recent bug report (http://www.python.org/sf/546117) suggests that the C compiler in this 64-bit system has bugs