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-[Excerpt from an email describing how to build Python on AIX.]
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-Subject: Re: Python 1.0.0 BETA 5 -- also for Macintosh!
-From: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
-To: Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl
-Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 17:40:43 +0100
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-The following are [...] Instructions
-to get a clean compile using gcc and xlc
-under AIX 3.2.4.
-
-Since I wanted to make sure that Python compiles
-using both compilers and several sets of options
-(ANSI and traditional C, optimize on/off) I didn't
-try to include bash readline or other optional 
-modules.
-
-'make test' succeeded using Python compiled with 
-the AIX C-compiler invoked as 'cc' and with options 
-'-o -qMEMMAX=4000' and compiled with 'gcc' and 
-options '-O -Wall'.
-
-There were some problems trying to compile python
-using 'gcc -ansi' (because of _AIX no longer being
-defined), but I didn't have time to look into this.
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-
-Regards,
-
-Stefan Esser
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-REQUIRED:
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-1) AIX compilers don't like the LANG env
-   varaiable set to european locales.
-   This makes the compiler generate floating
-   point constants using "," as the decimal 
-   seperator, which the assembler doesnt't 
-   understand (or was it the other way around,
-   with the assembler expecting "," in float
-   numbers ???).
-   Anyway: "LANG=C; export LANG" solves the 
-   problem, as does "LANG=C $(MAKE) ..." in 
-   the master Makefile.
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-OPTIONAL:
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-2) The xlc compiler considers "Python/ceval.c"
-   too complex to optimize, except when invoked
-   with "-qMEMMAX=4000". 
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