Re: Problems installing/using Python on Linux

Adrian Phillips (tandem@freeze.oslo.dnmi.no)
17 Jan 1995 09:43:28 GMT

>>>>> "Benny" == Benny Rochwerger <rochwerg@ovid.cs.umass.edu> writes:

Benny> I've just installed python 1.1.1 on my linux box, and I
Benny> noticed the following problems:

Benny> make test cause a segmentation fault. I noticed that this
Benny> happens int the test_b2.py module in the statement :

Benny> pow(x,y,z)

Benny> when x = 2L, y=10, and z = 1000

Benny> Is this a known problem, or did I do something wrong in the
Benny> build process (all I did was enabling tkinter in
Benny> Modules/Setup before make).

Is this the -lmath problem ? I'm totally fuzzy on this now, but there
is a ieee lib that should be linked, -lieee otherwise you get seg
faults (if somebody knows better, please correct me),

Adrian

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