Toon> But some other (but 'similar') functionality is broken. Now I Toon> succeeded in compiling python. But when using distutils (e.g. when Toon> installing numarray using the setup.py), python will compile the Toon> files using the '-xarch=v9' option but drops this option when Toon> linking dynamic libraries (although I defined LDFLAGS="-xarch=v9" Toon> before configuring python). Additionally python adds the option Toon> '-xcode=pic32' to the compile-command which will compile my Toon> numarray in 32bit instead of 64bit (while python itself is in Toon> 64bit)
That seems like a bug in distutils. Can you submit a help ticket? Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list