Michael Felt added the comment: It worked fine using xlc with 2.7.10 (verified again today).
The delta between ceval.c in 2.7.10 and 2.7.11 is large. make.out (excerpt) 2.7.10: rm -f libpython2.7.a ar rc libpython2.7.a Modules/getbuildinfo.o ar rc libpython2.7.a Parser/acceler.o Parser/grammar1.o Parser/listnode.o Parser/node.o Parser/parser.o Parser/parsetok.o Parser/bitset.o Parser/metagrammar.o Parser/firstsets.o Parser/grammar.o Parser/pgen.o Parser/myreadline.o Parser/tokenizer.o ar rc libpython2.7.a Objects/abstract.o Objects/boolobject.o Objects/bufferobject.o Objects/bytes_methods.o Objects/bytearrayobject.o Objects/capsule.o Objects/c ellobject.o Objects/classobject.o Objects/cobject.o Objects/codeobject.o Objects/complexobject.o Objects/descrobject.o Objects/enumobject.o Objects/exceptions.o Object s/genobject.o Objects/fileobject.o Objects/floatobject.o Objects/frameobject.o Objects/funcobject.o Objects/intobject.o Objects/iterobject.o Objects/listobject.o Objec ts/longobject.o Objects/dictobject.o Objects/memoryobject.o Objects/methodobject.o Objects/moduleobject.o Objects/object.o Objects/obmalloc.o Objects/rangeobject.o Obj ects/setobject.o Objects/sliceobject.o Objects/stringobject.o Objects/structseq.o Objects/tupleobject.o Objects/typeobject.o Objects/weakrefobject.o Objects/unicodeobje ct.o Objects/unicodectype.o ar rc libpython2.7.a Python/_warnings.o Python/Python-ast.o Python/asdl.o Python/ast.o Python/bltinmodule.o Python/ceval.o Python/compile.o Python/codecs.o Pyt hon/errors.o Python/frozen.o Python/frozenmain.o Python/future.o Python/getargs.o Python/getcompiler.o Python/getcopyright.o Python/getplatform.o Python/getversion.o Python/graminit.o Python/import.o Python/importdl.o Python/marshal.o Python/modsupport.o Python/mystrtoul.o Python/mysnprintf.o Python/peephole.o Python/pyarena.o Pyt hon/pyctype.o Python/pyfpe.o Python/pymath.o Python/pystate.o Python/pythonrun.o Python/random.o Python/structmember.o Python/symtable.o Python/sysmodule.o Python/tra ceback.o Python/getopt.o Python/pystrcmp.o Python/pystrtod.o Python/dtoa.o Python/formatter_unicode.o Python/formatter_string.o Python/dynload_shlib.o Python/threa d.o ar rc libpython2.7.a Modules/config.o Modules/getpath.o Modules/main.o Modules/gcmodule.o ar rc libpython2.7.a Modules/threadmodule.o Modules/signalmodule.o Modules/posixmodule.o Modules/errnomodule.o Modules/pwdmodule.o Modules/_sre.o Modules/_codecs module.o Modules/_weakref.o Modules/zipimport.o Modules/symtablemodule.o Modules/xxsubtype.o ranlib libpython2.7.a ./Modules/makexp_aix Modules/python.exp . libpython2.7.a; xlc -Wl,-bE:Modules/python.exp -lld -o python Modules/python.o libpython2.7.a -ldl -lpthread -lm ./python -E -S -m sysconfig --generate-posix-vars ; if test $? -ne 0 ; then echo "generate-posix-vars failed" ; rm -f ./pybuilddir.txt ; exit 1 ; fi running build tail make.out (2.7.11) rm -f libpython2.7.a ar rc libpython2.7.a Modules/getbuildinfo.o ar rc libpython2.7.a Parser/acceler.o Parser/grammar1.o Parser/listnode.o Parser/node.o Parser/parser.o Parser/parsetok.o Parser/bitset.o Parser/metagrammar.o Parser/firstsets .o Parser/grammar.o Parser/pgen.o Parser/myreadline.o Parser/tokenizer.o ar rc libpython2.7.a Objects/abstract.o Objects/boolobject.o Objects/bufferobject.o Objects/bytes_methods.o Objects/bytearrayobject.o Objects/capsule.o Objects/cellobject.o Ob jects/classobject.o Objects/cobject.o Objects/codeobject.o Objects/complexobject.o Objects/descrobject.o Objects/enumobject.o Objects/exceptions.o Objects/genobject.o Objects/ fileobject.o Objects/floatobject.o Objects/frameobject.o Objects/funcobject.o Objects/intobject.o Objects/iterobject.o Objects/listobject.o Objects/longobject.o Objects/dictob ject.o Objects/memoryobject.o Objects/methodobject.o Objects/moduleobject.o Objects/object.o Objects/obmalloc.o Objects/rangeobject.o Objects/setobject.o Objects/sliceobject.o Objects/stringobject.o Objects/structseq.o Objects/tupleobject.o Objects/typeobject.o Objects/weakrefobject.o Objects/unicodeobject.o Objects/unicodectype.o ar rc libpython2.7.a Python/_warnings.o Python/Python-ast.o Python/asdl.o Python/ast.o Python/bltinmodule.o Python/ceval.o Python/compile.o Python/codecs.o Python/errors.o Pyt hon/frozen.o Python/frozenmain.o Python/future.o Python/getargs.o Python/getcompiler.o Python/getcopyright.o Python/getplatform.o Python/getversion.o Python/graminit.o Python/ import.o Python/importdl.o Python/marshal.o Python/modsupport.o Python/mystrtoul.o Python/mysnprintf.o Python/peephole.o Python/pyarena.o Python/pyctype.o Python/pyfpe.o Pytho n/pymath.o Python/pystate.o Python/pythonrun.o Python/random.o Python/structmember.o Python/symtable.o Python/sysmodule.o Python/traceback.o Python/getopt.o Python/pystrcmp.o Python/pystrtod.o Python/dtoa.o Python/formatter_unicode.o Python/formatter_string.o Python/dynload_shlib.o Python/thread.o ar rc libpython2.7.a Modules/config.o Modules/getpath.o Modules/main.o Modules/gcmodule.o ar rc libpython2.7.a Modules/threadmodule.o Modules/signalmodule.o Modules/posixmodule.o Modules/errnomodule.o Modules/pwdmodule.o Modules/_sre.o Modules/_codecsmodule.o Modules/_weakref.o Modules/zipimport.o Modules/symtablemodule.o Modules/xxsubtype.o ranlib libpython2.7.a ./Modules/makexp_aix Modules/python.exp . libpython2.7.a; xlc -Wl,-bE:Modules/python.exp -lld -o python \ Modules/python.o \ libpython2.7.a -ldl -lpthread -lm If -Wl,something was a structural problem I would have quit xlc (and perhaps AIX) years ago. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26466> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com