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From: Justin Gullingsrud (justinrocks_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 04 2005 - 17:50:58 CST

It looks like you're in for some real fun on SGI:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2003-August/019674.html

There's a suggested workaround to get the socket module to compile,
but I haven't been able to get it work.

Other than that, I got what seems to be a working 64-bit Python
interpreter and static library built with Python 2.3.4. I had to edit
config.status to change CC to cc 64 -mips4, similarly for CXX and
LDFORSHARED, and I replaced ranlib with touch. If you want I can tar
up what I have and send it to you.

Justin

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:56:59 -0600, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> In my quest to upgrade VMD's built-in Python interpreter
> to something less archaic than Python 2.2.2, I've been trying
> to build and link the Python 2.3.x and 2.4.x series on all of
> the VMD target platforms, but unfortunately the Python configure
> scripts seem hopelessly broken for compilation on 64-bit
> architectures such as Solaris, IRIX, etc. Has anyone successfully
> compiled Python on 64-bit machines other than Linux x86_64?
> (Linux x86_64 works by coincidence only due to the default
> behavior of gcc on those systems)
>
> Unless I can get Python to compile and run cleanly on all of the
> supported VMD target architectures, I'll be stuck shipping VMD 1.8.3
> with the older Python 2.2.2 interpreter, which while old, does in fact
> build correctly on 64-bit machines.
>
> I'm also battling getting Numeric compiled correctly on Win32, but that's
> not as much of a deal killer since I do have Python itself built there.
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
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> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
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> 

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