source: python/vendor/Python-2.6.5/Misc/BeOS-NOTES

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1Python for BeOS R5
2
3In Python-2.1, the standard version of the new setup.py program
4will not build the full complement of modules on BeOS. Instead,
5please replace it with the special BeOS version in Misc/BeOS-setup.py.
6
7To build,
8
9 1) cp Misc/BeOS-setup.py setup.py
10 2) ./configure --prefix=/boot/home/config
11 3) make
12
13The modules will all build, except termios which assumes some flags
14we don't have. Put a libreadline.a in /boot/home/config/lib to get
15a readline.so for your interactive editing convenience; NB, not
16libreadline.so, you want to link a static readline library into the
17dynamically loaded Python module.
18
19Test:
20
21 make test
22
23 The BeOS is Not UNIX category:
24 - test_select crashed -- select.error : (-2147459072, 'Bad file descriptor')
25 - test_socket crashed -- exceptions.AttributeError : SOCK_RAW
26 - test_fcntl crashed -- exceptions.IOError: [Errno -2147483643] Invalid argument
27
28 This one is funny! BeOS does support large files, and that's why
29 we get this error: the file is too big for my filesystem!
30 - test_largefile crashed -- exceptions.IOError: [Errno -2147459065]
31 No space left on device
32
33 - test_pickle crashed. This is apparently a serious problem, "complex"
34 number objects reconstructed from a pickle don't compare equal to
35 their ancestors. But it happens on BeOS PPC only, not Intel.
36
37Install:
38
39 make install
40
41
42Maintainer: None (please volunteer if you would like to see this port continue
43to exist!)
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