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Martin,

Your method is just flat wrong - equivalent to using a sledgehammer. The libraries fail to link not because gcc install is wrong but because the -m64 flag needs to be passed to the linker. Your method just fixes the compilation stage. You are blaming the gcc installation for your problem when in fact the rest of the open source world builds just fine using gcc when the proper flags are passed at the proper stages of the build.

This situation is so sad to see. This isn't the way open source development is supposed to be. Basically you alone are the gatekeeper and you are refusing to deal with what is a very simple problem.

To be sure I really don't care anymore - we will continue to apply the patches that we have to fix the build problem however, we will also actively discourage the use of Python for our customers and all future development/deployment since it is obvious that as the maintainer you are completely closed minded and uncooperative when it comes to fixing things.

My suggestion for the rest of the Python community is to branch and re-host the Python project elsewhere if anyone wants to see it move forward.

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Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> added the comment:

So, since this patch allows python to be built 64-bit on a biarch
system, and without it, the build doesn't work


This is simply not true. I can build Python 2.5 just fine for 64-bit
SPARC, using gcc, with

CC="gcc -m64" ./configure
make

Or, using SunPRO, with

CC="cc -m64" ./configure
make

I tested it myself, and it successfully builds a Python executable
(For gcc, the extension modules fail to load because it picks up
the wrong libgcc_s, which I believe is a gcc installation bug. For
SunPRO, the extension modules also build fine).

So before anything is fixed, I'd like to see an actual, reliable,
reproducable error report. The subject of this report (Python 2.5
64 bit compile fails on Solaris 10 with gcc) is not reproducable,
so I'm tempted to close this report as "works for me".

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