From: Charles_at_Schwieters.org
Date: Tue Feb 08 2005 - 11:11:21 CST

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Hi John--

>
> 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)

what kind of errors are you seeing? Aside from Irix (which is sorta long
in the tooth these days), I haven't noticed problems building 2.3.4
under Solaris, OSF, AMD64, Itanium. It's possible that specific modules
failed to build, but I haven't noticed problems...

Charles
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