| Python for BeOS R5 |
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| In Python-2.1, the standard version of the new setup.py program |
| will not build the full complement of modules on BeOS. Instead, |
| please replace it with the special BeOS version in Misc/BeOS-setup.py. |
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| To build, |
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| 1) cp Misc/BeOS-setup.py setup.py |
| 2) ./configure --prefix=/boot/home/config |
| 3) make |
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| The modules will all build, except termios which assumes some flags |
| we don't have. Put a libreadline.a in /boot/home/config/lib to get |
| a readline.so for your interactive editing convenience; NB, not |
| libreadline.so, you want to link a static readline library into the |
| dynamically loaded Python module. |
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| Test: |
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| make test |
| |
| The BeOS is Not UNIX category: |
| - test_select crashed -- select.error : (-2147459072, 'Bad file descriptor') |
| - test_socket crashed -- exceptions.AttributeError : SOCK_RAW |
| - test_fcntl crashed -- exceptions.IOError: [Errno -2147483643] Invalid argument |
| |
| This one is funny! BeOS does support large files, and that's why |
| we get this error: the file is too big for my filesystem! |
| - test_largefile crashed -- exceptions.IOError: [Errno -2147459065] |
| No space left on device |
| |
| - test_pickle crashed. This is apparently a serious problem, "complex" |
| number objects reconstructed from a pickle don't compare equal to |
| their ancestors. But it happens on BeOS PPC only, not Intel. |
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| Install: |
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| make install |
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| Maintainer: None (please volunteer if you would like to see this port continue |
| to exist!) |
