On 2009.05.13 10:34:55 +0200, henning.vonbar...@arcor.de wrote: > How to build Python 2.6.2 on HP-UX Itanium with thread support? > Note: I know that the first address to post this question is > comp.lang.python, but > I posted this question a week ago on comp.lang.python > (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c7006ad8e5cf81e8) > and unfortunately, I didn't receive any answers. > > According to Patch 1225212, > at least Peter Kropf was able to get Python running with threading support > on this platform, though AFAIK he was not using GCC. > > But I guess it should be possible with GCC as well. > > Is anyone able to confirm that Python (built with GCC) > does or does not work with multi-threading on HP-UX Itanium?
The good news: I did get Python 2.4.x working on HP-UX Itanium, with threading. The compiler was gcc 4.0.x. (I also tried building Python with aCC, but failed.) I remember building both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. I don't remember it being that hard. Used the source for the package at hpux.connect.org.uk as a starting point, since it had a lot of good porting tweaks, but it needed some further tweaking. (The main one I remember that is that the shared library extension for Itanium should be .so not .sl There were also a bunch of paths that required appending 32 or 64.) We used that build of Python in production, for very heavily multithreaded code, on multi-CPU boxes. Worked fine. AFAIK they're still using it. I'm not sure why the binary available at hpux.connect.org.uk has threading disabled. I suspect that some older version of HP/UX had pthread bugs that got fixed somewhere along the line. The bad news: I did this about 3.5 years ago, and I don't work there anymore, so I don't have access to that HP-UX hardware anymore, or to the notes I made when I was doing the port. So I can give you encouragement but not step-by-step instructions. Sorry. -- David Ripton drip...@ripton.net _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
