Installing Python 2.3.2 from source

[Matt Hearn]

Hey y'all, I'm trying to install Python 2.3.2 from the source files (since last I checked there wasn't a depot for it yet).

I'm getting a host of errors. When I tried to compile as is, using cc, it would fail, mostly giving me errors about using options that are only available with ANSI/C. So I installed gcc 3.3.2 and tried again; it got a lot further, but then it gave me a lot of "_POSIX_C_SOURCE redefined" errors, and finally failed with this:

gcc -pthread -Wl,-E -Wl,+s -o python \
Modules/python.o \
libpython2.3.a -lnsl -lrt -ldld -lm
/usr/ccs/bin/ld: Unsatisfied symbols:
PyThread_acquire_lock (code)
PyThread_exit_thread (code)
PyThread_allocate_lock (code)
PyThread_free_lock (code)
PyThread_start_new_thread (code)
PyThread_release_lock (code)
PyThread_get_thread_ident (code)
PyThread__init_thread (code)
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
*** Error exit code 1

I heard that editing out the "O" option from the makefile (turning off optimization) could help, but I get the same error. Any ideas?

Thanks!!!!

[Hemanth Gurunath Basrur]

Hello Matt,

Refer to the foll. link for info.

http://diveintopython.org/installing_python/source.html

HTH.

Regards,
Hemanth

[Matt Hearn]

That website details the commands used to install the software, which are already described in the README, and which I have already attempted.

Has nobody seen anything like this error before? When I google some of the errors I get a lot of hits, but no resolutions. Have I come across the unfixable bug?

Thanks!

[Steve Post]

I have not compiled python on my HPUX11.0 platform. But I have compiled other stuff and seen similar errors.

libpython2.3.a -lnsl -lrt -ldld -lm
/usr/ccs/bin/ld: Unsatisfied symbols:

I would check your $PATH. Make sure gcc's directories are before the CC's. I bet it is still using part of the original c compiler.

Check to see if you need to set CC=GCC or cc=gcc ..or cc=/opt/gcc/bin/gcc...or.... you get the idea. But I assume that was in the documentation already.

Also I have had problems where I needed to install gmake and binutils before I could get gcc to work right. At least that's what I needed for compiling perl.

hope my guess helps.
steve