Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I tried to configure with '-Xlinker -xlibmieee' added to LDFLAGS. Failed miserably. In fact, configure complained that my compiler couldn't create executables, told me to look at config.log for details then logged me out from the machine! It would appear gcc *really* doesn't like that combination:
... configure:2676: checking for C compiler default output file name configure:2703: gcc -I/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.6/include - I/opt/app/nonc++/ncu rses-5.6/include/ncurses -I/opt/app/nonc++/gdbm-1.8/include - I/opt/app/nonc++/re adline-4.3/include -I/opt/app/nonc++/tcl-8.4/include - I/opt/app/nonc++/BerkleyDB -4.3/include -L/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.6/lib -R/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses- 5.6/lib -L/opt/app/nonc++/gdbm-1.8/lib -R/opt/app/nonc++/gdbm-1.8/lib - L/opt/app/nonc++ /readline-4.3/lib -R/opt/app/nonc++/readline-4.3/lib -L/opt/app/nonc++/tcl- 8.4/l ib -R/opt/app/nonc++/tcl-8.4/lib -L/opt/app/nonc++/BerkleyDB-4.3/lib - R/opt/app/ nonc++/BerkleyDB-4.3/lib -Xlinker -xlibmieee conftest.c >&5 /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- x usage: ld [-6:abc:d:e:f:h:il:mo:p:rstu:z:B:CD:F:GI:L:M:N:P:Q:R:S:VY:?] file(s) [-64] enforce a 64-bit link-edit [-a] create an absolute file [-b] do not do special PIC relocations in a.out [-B direct | nodirect] establish direct bindings, or inhibit direct binding to, the object being created ... Skip _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3167> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com