New version for 1.4 from Manus.

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Subject: HERE IS AIX-NOTES
Subject: AIX-NOTES FOR 1.4
From: Manus Hand <Manus.Hand@evolving.com>
To: Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
Cc: Vladimir.Marangozov@imag.fr
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 16:11:10 -0600 (MDT)
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 16:02:07 -0600 (MDT)
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COMPILER INFORMATION
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AIX shared library support was added to Python in the 1.4 release by Manus
Hand (mhand@csn.net) and Vladimir Marangozov (Vladimir.Marangozov@imag.fr).
Python modules may now be built as shared libraries on AIX using the normal
Python modules may now be built as shared libraries on AIX using the normal
process of uncommenting the "*noconfig*" line in Modules/Setup.in before the
build. There is one additional step required, and that is to also uncomment
the line in Modules/Setup.in which reads
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contents of the "ld_so_aix" and "makexp_aix" scripts or refer to the AIX
documentation.
NOTE: If the extension module is written in C++ and contains templates,
an alternative to "ld_so_aix" is the /usr/lpp/xlC/bin/makeC++SharedLib
script. Chris Myers (myers@TC.Cornell.EDU) reports that ld_so_aix
works well for some C++ (including the C++ that is generated
automatically by the Python SWIG package [SWIG can be found at
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~beazley/SWIG/swig.html]). However, it is not
known whether makeC++SharedLib can be used as a complete substitute
for ld_so_aix.
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