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authorJeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>2000-10-09 18:34:12 (GMT)
committerJeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>2000-10-09 18:34:12 (GMT)
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added better description of BeOS changes from Donn Cave
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- Darwin (Mac OS X): Initial support for static builds on this
platform.
-- BeOS: Many changes were made to support compilation on BeOS 4.5 and
- 5.0.
+- BeOS: A number of changes were made to the build and installation
+ process. ar-fake now operates on a directory of object files.
+ dl_export.h is gone, and its macros now appear on the mwcc command
+ line during build on PPC BeOS.
+
+ Platform directory in lib/python2.0 is "plat-beos5" (or
+ "plat-beos4", if building on BeOS 4.5), rather than "plat-beos".
- Cygwin: Support for shared libraries, Tkinter, and sockets.