[egenix-users] DateTime bus error on Solaris

[N. Thomas]

* N. Thomas <nthomas at cise.ufl.edu> [2002-09-10 03:59:28 -0400]:
> > I am using egenix-mx-base-2.0.3, Python 2.1.1 on a Sun Sparc machine
> > running Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8).
> > 
> > When I run any program that uses DateTime (or indeed, any module that
> > calls it) I get the following error:
> > 
> >     $ python foo.py
> >     zsh: bus error  python foo.py
> 
> A bit of digging on Google tells me that it might possibly be a problem
> with byte alignment on Sparc. I would like to check this, and pass the
> "-mno-unaligned-doubles" flag to gcc when it compiles, how can I do this?

This didn't seem to work. Anybody have any suggestions on how to debug this?

thanks,
thomas

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