2007-08-08

More python brokenness: distutils

So I tried to compile Mercurial on Solaris with Sun's native compiler. I set CC and CFLAGS environment variables, but, as documented in distutils manual, the CFLAGS set in the environment are added to some predefined set of flags. This set of flags was adjusted to gcc, and Sun's compiler broke (no wonder) on some of gcc's options. It seems that compiler options are hardcoded in distutils at some obscure place. "Great" work!

After ca. 30 mins of fiddling around and searching on google, I recompiled the module using gcc.

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