Re: anyone built python for HP-UX 9.03?

Kenneth Hinckley (kph2q@ash.cs.virginia.edu)
Sun, 6 Feb 94 19:51:47 EST

Thanks, guido. This fixed it.

Just for the record, there is also a problem with the audioopmodule.
The use of the 'signed' keyword tripped up my compiler. But since I
don't need this module I just skipped it.

Ken

Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl writes:

|> 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>
| URL: <http://www.cwi.nl/cwi/people/Guido.van.Rossum.html>