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| author | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2002-12-02 22:17:01 (GMT) |
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| committer | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2002-12-02 22:17:01 (GMT) |
| commit | 779ffc066edd5b046549be196fca5abf8b4d244d (patch) | |
| tree | afc94755297e8097d6cb041e0d7bc781c35913ca /README | |
| parent | 7a98e8083c4eb21c33cdb6508dff74974a02a448 (diff) | |
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Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems.
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@@ -224,6 +224,28 @@ old K&R-C-only compilers is no longer possible. ANSI C compilers are available for all modern systems, either in the form of updated compilers from the vendor, or one of the free compilers (gcc). +Unsupported systems +------------------- + +A number of features are not supported in Python 2.3 anymore. Some +support code is still present, but will be removed in Python 2.4. +If you still need to use current Python versions on these systems, +please send a message to python-dev@python.org indicating that you +volunteer to support this system. + +More specifically, the following systems are not supported any +longer: +- SunOS 4 +- DYNIX +- dgux +- Minix +- Irix 4 and --with-sgi-dl +- Linux 1 +- Systems defining __d6_pthread_create (configure.in) +- Systems defining PY_PTHREAD_D4, PY_PTHREAD_D6, + or PY_PTHREAD_D7 in thread_pthread.h +- Systems using --with-dl-dld + Platform specific notes ----------------------- @@ -351,6 +373,7 @@ UnixWare: There are known bugs in the math library of the system, as well as SunOS 4.x: When using the SunPro C compiler, you may want to use the '-Xa' option instead of '-Xc', to enable some needed non-ANSI Sunisms. + THIS SYSTEM IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED. NeXT: Not supported anymore. Start with the MacOSX/Darwin code if you want to revive it. @@ -886,7 +909,7 @@ Modules/getpath.o. library) by passing --with-sgi-dl=DIRECTORY where DIRECTORY is the absolute pathname of the dl library. (Don't bother on IRIX 5, it already has dynamic linking using SunOS style - shared libraries.) Support for this feature is deprecated. + shared libraries.) THIS OPTION IS UNSUPPORTED. --with-dl-dld: Dynamic loading of modules is rumored to be supported on some other systems: VAX (Ultrix), Sun3 (SunOS 3.4), Sequent @@ -902,8 +925,7 @@ Modules/getpath.o. the absolute pathname of the dl emulation library and DLD_DIRECTORY is the absolute pathname of the GNU dld library. (Don't bother on SunOS 4 or 5, they already have dynamic - linking using shared libraries.) Support for this feature is - deprecated. + linking using shared libraries.) THIS OPTION IS UNSUPPORTED. --with-libm, --with-libc: It is possible to specify alternative versions for the Math library (default -lm) and the C library |