Re: anyone built python for HP-UX 9.03?

Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl
Sun, 06 Feb 1994 18:15:39 +0100

> The python make file fails on my HP755 running HP-UX 9.03. Probably
> there is something dumb I am doing that I missed in the readme file...
[...]
> cc -O -I./../Include -I.. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c modsupport.c
> cc: "modsupport.c", line 264: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "*".
> cc: "modsupport.c", line 272: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "va".
> cc: "modsupport.c", line 264: error 1705: Function prototypes are an ANSI feature.
[...]

The 1.0.0 configure script mistakenly assumes that if <stdarg.h>
exists it can be used. If you manually remove the #define
HAVE_STDARG_H from config.h this problem should go away.

--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl>
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