Re: Any AIX experts out there?

> "Donn Cave" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Quoth Laura Creighton <[email protected]>:
> > | The Snake Farm is having trouble building Python on AIX.
> > | See: http://lists.lysator.liu.se/pipermail/snake-farm/2003-January/000654
> .html
> > |
> > | Does anybody recognise these symptoms?
> > 
> > No.  As Neal surmises, a problem with the host is as likely as anything
> > else - we have a number of AIX boxes here and I wouldn't touch installation
> > or maintenance of the IBM software with a stick, leave that to specialists
> > and keep an eye out for problems anyway.
> > 
> > I configured 2.2.1 with platform type rs6000-ibm-aix4.1,
> > OPT='-O2 -qmaxmem=8192', CC=cc and --with-cxx=no.
> > 
> > 	Donn Cave, [email protected]
> 
> I just compiled Python2.2.2 on AIX yesterday.  Worked fine, though it
> was pretty big -- 7MB, but that included tkinter.  Used gcc 2.95.3.
> Used ./configure --prefix=... --with-gcc.  Configure got everything
> else right.
> 
> I agree that AIX is a tricky world for OSS.  Sometimes I have to use
> the vendor compiler (xlC), sometimes the libraries are hard to find,
> sometimes it just doesn't build, etc.  
> 
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What does --prefix=... mean?

Laura