Toon> To configure python on a Solaris 9 box with sunstudio11 installed Toon> and to compile it in 64bit, I execute following:
Toon> <code> Toon> export CC=cc Toon> export CFLAGS="-xarch=v9" Toon> export CXX=CC Toon> export CXXFLAGS="-xarch=v9" Toon> export F77=f77 Toon> export FFLAGS="-xarch=v9" Toon> export LDFLAGS="-xarch=v9" Toon> ./configure Toon> </code> Toon> When doing 'make' afterwards, the '-xarch=v9' option is not on the Toon> command-line however? Should'nt the CFLAGS be propagated to the Toon> Makefile that is generated by configure? Or is there any other way Toon> to do this? I agree, the Python configure/Makefile combination doesn't conform very well to current GNU style in this regard. Try setting EXTRA_CFLAGS instead of CFLAGS. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list