On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 04:54:13PM +1200, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 17:17 -0700, Danek Duvall wrote: > > > 2.2 Imported Interfaces > > > > > > Interface Classification Comments > > > ----------------------------- -------------- ---------------------- > > > libgcc_s.so.1 Volatile PSARC/2004/742 > > > > Couldn't this be eliminated by using the Studio compiler? > > It would, but libffi contains ASM code that doesn't build with > Sun Studio. It may be possible to build it with a future > version of Sun Studio. > ??? > > Or does Python require gcc? > > No.
It's worth noting that it does *support* using gcc to build modules though, so this dependency is there anyway, right? regards, john