setup.py diff for alpha linux

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#5 setup.py diff for alpha linux

Milestone: MySQLdb

Status: closed

Owner: Andy Dustman

Labels: MySQLdb (53)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2012-09-19

Created: 2002-01-30

Creator: Rob Steele

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Adding two lines to setup.py allows MySQLdb to load
under Alpha Linux.

Requires libots and libcmpl, which are available from

http://www.compaq.com/fortran

and

http://www.compaq.com/math.

Compiled using Python 2.2, MySQL 3.23.47 and MySQLdb
0.9.2a2.

Discussion

Rob Steele - 2002-01-30

setup.py.diff

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Andy Dustman - 2002-01-30

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In the future, please use a unified diff or context diff.

Why are these libraries necessary?

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Rob Steele - 2002-01-31

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I'm not familiar with unified or context diffs. The
libraries are necessary because gcc for some reason calls
them in the code it emits for _mysql.c. The libraries
contain utility and math routines optimized by DEC (Compaq)
for the Alpha. I would not be surprised if RedHat built
gcc wrong and that's where the problem comes from.

I had the same problem under RedHat 6.2.

Another solution is to use ccc, the Compaq compiler that
comes free with RedHat. If you build Python with it,
MySQLdb will use it too. But then the compiler chokes on
the mx stuff and I haven't bothered to hunt for what it
would take to fix that.

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