Bugs item #1675511, was opened at 2007-03-07 08:54 Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by loewis You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1675511&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Build Group: Python 2.5 Status: Open Resolution: None >Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Carson Gaspar (cgaspar) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Python still uses broken -xcode option on Solaris/x86 Initial Comment: Bug 1561333 was submitted against Python 2.4 with no action, so I'm submitting a new bug against 2.5 in the hopes that someone will read it... text updated with minor corrections. Python 2.5, Solaris x86 10 Update 3, Sun Studio 11 xcode=pic32 option is not supported on Solaris x86 Sun C . Python's ./configure script on Solaris systems sets the compiler flag -xcode=pic32 when any compiler other than gcc is used. Unfortunately, the -xcode flag is only available in the sparc version of Sun C. The x86 version of Sun C does not support the -xcode option at all and generates an error that an illegal option was used. The portable flag supported on both platforms to use independent 32-bit addressing is -KPIC. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2007-03-09 09:56 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Originator: NO I don't want to make a change now, just to have to deal with a bug report two years from now which then will sit again in this tracker for years again. I'm fine with documenting that older SunPRO compilers are not supported; -xcode has been supported atleast since Sun Forte 6 (released in 2000); earlier products had reached their end-of-life long ago. So either this gets fixed properly now, or not at all. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Carson Gaspar (cgaspar) Date: 2007-03-09 09:06 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=664506 Originator: YES While the doc labels the -KPIC option as "obsolete" for SPARC, it works fine. Perhaps Studio 12 will break it, but all current compilers understand it fine. If you want to be pedantically correct and use -xcode=pic32, you don't need an architecture test, you need to actually _try_ the option, as older SPARC compilers won't accept it either. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2007-03-09 08:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Originator: NO One problem is that the proposed change is incorrect. According to the C User's Guide of Sun Studio 11 (document 819-3688-10), -KPIC is an obsolete option on SPARC, and should be replaced with -xcode=pic32 (section A.1.15). So I think a patch should be architecture-specific. Can somebody come up with a patch that does that? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: James Lick (jlick) Date: 2007-03-07 09:34 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=673069 Originator: NO Perhaps I was unclear in bug #1561333 that this resulted in only a warning. Actually the build will fail because of the incorrect flag. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1675511&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
