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
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41
42Maintainer: None (please volunteer if you would like to see this port continue
43to exist!)
44