| 1 | Python for BeOS R5
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| 3 | In Python-2.1, the standard version of the new setup.py program
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| 4 | will not build the full complement of modules on BeOS. Instead,
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| 5 | please replace it with the special BeOS version in Misc/BeOS-setup.py.
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| 6 |
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| 7 | To build,
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| 8 |
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| 9 | 1) cp Misc/BeOS-setup.py setup.py
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| 10 | 2) ./configure --prefix=/boot/home/config
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| 11 | 3) make
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| 12 |
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| 13 | The modules will all build, except termios which assumes some flags
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| 14 | we don't have. Put a libreadline.a in /boot/home/config/lib to get
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| 15 | a readline.so for your interactive editing convenience; NB, not
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| 16 | libreadline.so, you want to link a static readline library into the
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| 17 | dynamically loaded Python module.
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| 18 |
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| 19 | Test:
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| 20 |
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| 21 | make test
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| 22 |
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| 23 | The BeOS is Not UNIX category:
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| 24 | - test_select crashed -- select.error : (-2147459072, 'Bad file descriptor')
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| 25 | - test_socket crashed -- exceptions.AttributeError : SOCK_RAW
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| 26 | - test_fcntl crashed -- exceptions.IOError: [Errno -2147483643] Invalid argument
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| 27 |
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| 28 | This one is funny! BeOS does support large files, and that's why
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| 29 | we get this error: the file is too big for my filesystem!
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| 30 | - test_largefile crashed -- exceptions.IOError: [Errno -2147459065]
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| 31 | No space left on device
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| 32 |
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| 33 | - test_pickle crashed. This is apparently a serious problem, "complex"
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| 34 | number objects reconstructed from a pickle don't compare equal to
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| 35 | their ancestors. But it happens on BeOS PPC only, not Intel.
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| 36 |
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| 37 | Install:
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| 38 |
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| 39 | make install
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| 40 |
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| 41 |
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| 42 | - Donn Cave (donn@oz.net)
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| 43 | October 4, 2000
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