From: scothrell at austin.rr.com (Scott C)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 03:26:48 GMT
Subject: Change for compiling 1.5.2 on Windows NT Alpha
Message-ID: <Y5yR2.96$y3.15860@typhoon.austin.rr.com>
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Guido and fellow pythoneers...

There needs to be the following change in file fpectlmodule.c, line 163:

Line currently reads:  #elif defined(__alpha)

line should read: #elif defined(__alpha) && !defined(_MSC_VER)


Rationale:  The original line correctly identifies the DEC Alpha processor,
but not the OS.  Consequently, when compiled under NT 4 Alpha using MSVC
5.0, which defines __alpha (apparently), the wrong section is processed.
The additional logic prevents the Microsoft compiler from processing the
wrong section.

Scott Cothrell

PS: I have Alpha NT versions compiled for python15.dll and python.exe








