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242242appropriate machine with the appropriate options). This creates the
243243necessary subdirectories and the Makefiles therein. The Makefiles
244244contain a line VPATH=... which points to directory containing the
245- actual sources.
245+ actual sources. (On SGI systems, use "smake" instead of "make" if you
246+ use VPATH -- don't try gnumake.)
246247
247248For example, the following is all you need to build a minimal Python
248249in /usr/tmp/python (assuming ~guido/src/python is the toplevel
@@ -256,13 +257,6 @@ directory and you want to build in /usr/tmp/python):
256257 [...]
257258 $
258259
259- To use the readline library in this case, you will have to create a
260- subdirectory of your build directory called readline, copy
261- readline/Makefile into it, edit the Makefile to contain a proper VPATH
262- line (and possibly edit the compiler flags set in the Makefile), and
263- pass the configure script a --with-readline=DIRECTORY option giving it
264- the absolute (!) pathname of the readline build directory.
265-
266260Note that Modules/Makefile copies the original Setup file to the build
267261directory if it finds no Setup file there. This means that you can
268262edit the Setup file for each architecture independently. For this
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