On Fri, Jan 14 2011, Wah Meng Wong wrote:
[...] >> That would be my first guess (especially since it's the binary >> crashing). Is it not an option to get the sources and try to recompile >> it for ia64 HP-UX? > > Yes it is an option however I am not familiar with the rebuild process so > this > is my last resort. Looks like I have no choice but to rebuild. It should be fairly straightforward. You *might* have to skip some optional modules (e.g. ctypes) for which the necessary supporting libraries might not be there on your system but that should be okay. > Can I ping you if I encounter any issue? (I haven't been doing this > for 10 years) Sure. I can't guarantee a reply though >> It's possible but I don't think you'd get much out of a non-debug >> build of your binary. > > Yes however I don't have a copy of the debug build of python. Well then, you *can* do it but I don't think you'd get anything out of it. >> I'd try the latest 2.x (2.7something right now) series. It will have bug >> fixes which 1.xb doesn't have. > > Yes I will go for the python 2.5.2 as I found the source code on HP's > website. Will be doing that for HP-UX 11.31, Itanium platform. Why go for that? Why not use the source from the official site? Does HP maintain patches for their own platform? [...] -- _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
