Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #10083


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10/06/10 00:40:18 (3 years ago)
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drkirkby
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  • Ticket #10083 – Description

    initial v1  
     1== Hardware and software == 
     2 * IBM [http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.pseries.doc/hardware_docs/rs6000_7025f50series.htm RS/6000 7025 F50] 
     3 * 4 x 332 MHz 32-bit PowerPC CPUs 
     4 * 3 GB RAM 
     5 * A fairly wide mixture of disks sizes (3 x 9 GB, 1 x 18 GB, 1 x 36 GB and 1 x 73 GB) 
     6 * DDS-4 tape drive  
     7 * AIX 5.3 (A POSIX certified operating system) 
     8 * gcc 4.2.4 downloaded from [http://pware.hvcc.edu/ pware] 
     9 * sage-4.6.alpha1 with a patched python package to get around #9995 
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     11== The problem == 
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    113As reported at #9995, the python package initially failed to build at all, as Python's configure script thought the compiler was broken. Once that was sorted out, Python built, but failed to install due to this error: 
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    5567Since AIX is low on the priority list, I will not spend much time on this yet, until the 64-bit Solaris and !OpenSolaris ports are complete.  
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    57 I will investigate this more later, and report any problems upstream if they are needed. It might be something quite simple.  
     69I will investigate this more later, and report any problems upstream if they are needed. It might be something quite simple that's causing a lot of modules to fail to build on AIX.