| Python for BeOS R5 | |
| 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. | |
| To build, | |
| 1) cp Misc/BeOS-setup.py setup.py | |
| 2) ./configure --prefix=/boot/home/config | |
| 3) make | |
| 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. | |
| Test: | |
| 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. | |
| Install: | |
| make install | |
| Maintainer: None (please volunteer if you would like to see this port continue | |
| to exist!) |