Re: Compiling Python 2.5.2 on AIX 5.2

On Apr 14, 7:01 am, "M.-A. Lemburg" <m...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On AIX 5.3, Python 2.5.2 should build out of the box using gcc.

We've successfully build Python 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 on AIX 5.3
using the gcc compiler suite and tools installed from the
AIX Linux Toolbox:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/os/aix/linux/toolbox/altlic.html

./configure --enable-unicode=ucs2 --with-gcc

For 2.3 and 2.4 you need to patch pyconfig.h after the
configure run:

Marc-Andre,

Thanks so much for responding. I had to add --disable-ipv6 to ./
configure to prevent this problem:

checking getaddrinfo bug... buggy
Fatal: You must get working getaddrinfo() function.
or you can specify "--disable-ipv6".

When I checked pyconfig.h to make the patch you suggested I noticed
line 60 already reads like this:

#define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES 1

When ran make I immediately ran into problems. I'll investigate and
post back the results. Any comments and direction here is
appreciated.

$ make
gcc -pthread -c -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -
Wstrict-prototypes -I. -IInclude -I./Include -DPy_BUILD_CORE -o
Modules/python.o ./Modules/python.c
In file included from Include/Python.h:83,
from ./Modules/python.c:3:
Include/unicodeobject.h:73:2: error: #error Must define
Py_UNICODE_SIZE

What is Py_UNICODE_SIZE and why was it not defined? There are current
questions I have.

Kind regards,
-Randy Galbraith
ps. Based on uname -rvp output of "2 5 powerpc" I'm assuming my OS is
AIX 5.2 on PowerPC. I noticed you said you're on AIX 5.3. I'm not
100% sure I'm understanding uname output correctly.
.

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