Re: [snake-farm] Autodetect /usr/ccs/bin?
Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> Sun, 06 Oct 2002 09:29:24 -0400
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[Anders Qvist] > Several machines in the snake farm fail to build libpython2.3 because > they don't have ar in their path. ar, ld and the like live in > /usr/ccs/bin, which seems to be some kind of standard (for generous > values of standard) as both SunOS 5.8, AIX 4.3 and HP/UX 11.00 seems > ot have this dir. > > Should the configure script try with /usr/ccs/bin/ar and ld if none is > explicitly supplied? This may be a good idea, but I don't know zit about this area. I'm cc'ing python-dev, maybeo someone there understands this. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)