On Oct 28, 3:46 pm, Judy Booth <j...@invalid.invalid> wrote: > Can anyone point me towards some instructions for building Python on > Solaris 10? > We need this for some of our test scripts and so far we cannot get this > to build. > > We have tried both Python 2.6.4 and 3.1.1 and both fail with messages > like this: > Include/pyport.h:685:2: #error "LONG_BIT definition appears wrong for > platform (bad gcc/glibc config?)." > *** Error code 1 > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `Modules/python.o' > > The configure command used is: > ./configure --with-universal-archs=64-bit --enable-universalsdk > LDFLAGS="-s > -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/ssl/lib -lgcc" --prefix=/opt/python > --prefix=${PREFIX} > > and the compiler version is gcc 3.4.3. > > A search on Google showed this up as a problem several years ago and > suggested that there might be a problem with the way configure is working > on Solaris. > > If anyone can help with this that would be great. > > Thanks, > > Judy
We never heard back from the OP of this thread, but you might try building with cc instead of gcc: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/bf109ba2c86c3715 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list