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+Python 1.5.1 for BeOS
+
+This directory contains several useful things to help you build your own
+version of Python for BeOS.
+
+At this time, Python only supports BeOS on the PowerPC platform; if you'd
+like to help me port it to the x86 platform, please let me know (I only
+have limited access to BeOS on an x86 system).  If you'd like to lend
+me an x86 laptop running BeOS to do the port, _definitely_ let me know! :-)
+I'll even give it back when I'm done.
+
+What's Here?
+
+ar-1.1 - An "ar" command with a POSIX 1003.2 interface; you'll need
+         this for building the Python libraries under BeOS
+         (/bin/ar just won't cut it).
+
+linkcc - A shell script used by the build process to build the Python
+         shared library.
+
+linkmodule - A shell script used by the build process to build the
+             shared library versions of the standard modules; you'll
+             probably need this if you want to build dynamically loaded
+             modules from the Python archives.
+
+PyImport_BeImageID.html - Documentation for a function added to the
+                          Python interpreter under BeOS; not interesting
+                          unless you're writing your own BeOS-specific
+                          modules for dealing with dynamically-loaded
+                          Python modules.
+
+README - This file (obviously!).
+
+README.readline-2.2 - Instructions for compiling/installing GNU readline 2.2.
+                      You'll have to grab the GNU readline source code from 
+                      prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/GNU or any other GNU mirror.
+
+                      The Python interpreter is much nicer to work with
+                      interactively if you've got readline installed.  Highly
+                      recommended.
+
+Compiling Your Own Version
+
+To compile your own version of Python 1.5.1 for BeOS (with any luck,
+Python 1.6 will compile "out of the box" on BeOS), try this:
+
+1) Get the Python 1.5.1 source code from ftp.python.org.
+
+2) Get the Python 1.5.1 diffs from my web pages 
+   (http://www.qnx.com/~chrish/Be/software/); if you can't get them through
+   a web browser, send me email and I'll mail them back to you.  These
+   diffs should also be available at ftp.python.org along with the BeOS
+   binary archive.
+   
+   Run autoconf.  If you don't have autoconf, you can get a precompiled
+   version from GeekGadgets (ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/geekgadgets/...).
+
+3) Compile and install the POSIX ar from the ar-1.1 directory; see the
+   README in there for details.
+
+4) Configure with:
+
+   AR=ar-posix RANLIB=: ./configure --verbose --without-gcc \
+   --prefix=/boot/home/config --with-thread
+   
+   The only strange thing that happens during the configure is that
+   we fail the "genuine getopt()" test; this is odd because we've got
+   a real live GNU getopt() in the system libs.  Other packages built
+   using configure (such as all of the goodies in GeekGadgets) suffer
+   the same fate though, so it's not a Python problem.
+
+5) Copy Modules/Setup.in to Modules/Setup.
+
+6) Edit Modules/Setup to turn on all the modules you want built.  I've
+   personally built the following modules:
+
+   array, audioop, binascii, cPickle, cStringIO, cmath, crypt, curses,
+   errno, fcntl, gdbm, grp, imageop, math, md5, new, operator, parser,
+   pcre, posix, pwd, readline, regex, reop, rgbimg, rotor, select,
+   signal, socket, soundex, strop, struct, syslog, termios, thread,
+   time, timing, zlib
+
+   Newly compiled/tested with 1.5.1:
+   
+   _locale
+
+   You can get precompiled gdbm, ncurses, and zlib libraries from the
+   GeekGadgets repository (ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/geekgadgets/...).
+   
+   Make sure you use _socket instead of socket for the name of the
+   socketmodule on BeOS.
+
+7) Make:
+
+   make
+   
+   or, if you feel the need for speed:
+   
+   make OPT="-O7 -opt schedule604"
+   
+   You can safely ignore any warnings you see during the build (and you'll
+   see several if you use full warnings; I compiled the distribution with
+   -w9 -ansi strict and cleaned up any errors...).
+
+8) Test:
+
+   make test
+
+   Expect the following errors:
+
+   test_builtin failed -- round(1000000000.0)
+   test_fcntl skipped -- an optional feature could not be imported
+   test_grp crashed -- exceptions.KeyError : getgrnam(): name not found
+   test_pwd failed -- Writing: 'fakename', expected: 'caught e'
+   test_socket crashed -- exceptions.AttributeError : SOCK_RAW
+
+   These are all due to either partial support for certain things (like
+   sockets), or valid differences between systems (like the round()
+   error; different CPUs represent floating point numbers differently,
+   which can cause minor rounding errors).
+
+9) Install:
+
+   make install
+
+10) Enjoy!
+
+NOTE
+
+If you're going to build your own C/C++-based Python modules, link them
+against the libpython1.5.so shared library (in /boot/home/config/lib)
+instead of the libpython1.5.a (in /boot/home/config/lib/python1.5/config),
+unless you're building a statically-linked python interpreter (then you
+could try linking against _APP_ instead).
+
+Mixing modules linked against the shared library with a statically-linked
+interpreter is a bad idea (and it'll fail in _interesting_ ways).
+
+- Chris Herborth (chrish@qnx.com)
+  April 25, 1998