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| author | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2007-08-17 12:57:41 (GMT) |
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| committer | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2007-08-17 12:57:41 (GMT) |
| commit | eb33e5ae79542371a165bdb67099d14b7557a698 (patch) | |
| tree | b5e2bab1636a590bf389a38965afaab1cbd90628 /Misc/BeOS-NOTES | |
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Remove support for BeOS
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diff --git a/Misc/BeOS-NOTES b/Misc/BeOS-NOTES deleted file mode 100644 index af2cc1e..0000000 --- a/Misc/BeOS-NOTES +++ /dev/null @@ -1,42 +0,0 @@ -Python for BeOS R5 - -In Python-2.1, the standard version of the new setup.py program -will not build the full complement of modules on BeOS. Instead, -please replace it with the special BeOS version in Misc/BeOS-setup.py. - -To build, - - 1) cp Misc/BeOS-setup.py setup.py - 2) ./configure --prefix=/boot/home/config - 3) make - -The modules will all build, except termios which assumes some flags -we don't have. Put a libreadline.a in /boot/home/config/lib to get -a readline.so for your interactive editing convenience; NB, not -libreadline.so, you want to link a static readline library into the -dynamically loaded Python module. - -Test: - - make test - - The BeOS is Not UNIX category: - - test_select crashed -- select.error : (-2147459072, 'Bad file descriptor') - - test_socket crashed -- exceptions.AttributeError : SOCK_RAW - - test_fcntl crashed -- exceptions.IOError: [Errno -2147483643] Invalid argument - - This one is funny! BeOS does support large files, and that's why - we get this error: the file is too big for my filesystem! - - test_largefile crashed -- exceptions.IOError: [Errno -2147459065] - No space left on device - - - test_pickle crashed. This is apparently a serious problem, "complex" - number objects reconstructed from a pickle don't compare equal to - their ancestors. But it happens on BeOS PPC only, not Intel. - -Install: - - make install - - -Maintainer: Mikael Jansson (mail at mikael.jansson.be) |