Hello I want to intsall python on my AIX 6.1 Box. I couldn't get any rpm for python 2.5.x for AIX 6.1.
THen I decided to compile python 2.5.4 on my AIX box. I downloaded the python source code from www.python.org and tried to compile on my AIX both using gcc. step 1 ./configure --with-gcc configuration runs successfully step 2 make it gives me error case $MAKEFLAGS in *-s*) CC='gcc -pthread' LDSHARED='./Modules/ ld_so_aix gcc -pthread -bI:Modules/python.exp' OPT='-DNDEBUG -g - fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes' ./python -E ./setup.py -q build;; *) CC='gcc -pthread' LDSHARED='./Modules/ld_so_aix gcc - pthread -bI:Modules/python.exp' OPT='-DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall - Wstrict-prototypes' ./python -E ./setup.py build;; esac running build running build_ext building 'bz2' extension gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall - Wstrict-prototypes -I. -I/avre/Python-2.5.4/./Include -I. -IInclude - I./Include -I/avre/Python-2.5.4/Include -I/avre/Python-2.5.4 -c /avre/ Python-2.5.4/Modules/bz2module.c -o build/temp.aix-6.1-2.5/avre/ Python-2.5.4/Modules/bz2module.o building '_tkinter' extension ./Modules/ld_so_aix gcc -pthread -bI:Modules/python.exp build/ temp.aix-6.1-2.5/avre/Python-2.5.4/Modules/_tkinter.o build/ temp.aix-6.1-2.5/avre/Python-2.5.4/Modules/tkappinit.o -L/usr/X11/lib - ltk8.4 -ltcl8.4 -lX11 -o build/lib.aix-6.1-2.5/_tkinter.so *** WARNING: renaming "_tkinter" since importing it failed: 0509-022 Cannot load module build/lib.aix-6.1-2.5. 0509-026 System error: A file or directory in the path name does not exist. plz suggest -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list