| 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 | Maintainer: None (please volunteer if you would like to see this port continue | 
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| 43 | to exist!) | 
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