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authorMartin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>2001-09-06 08:16:17 (GMT)
committerMartin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>2001-09-06 08:16:17 (GMT)
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Revert parts of patch #453627, documenting the resulting test failures
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@@ -296,6 +296,11 @@ SCO: The following apply to SCO 3 only; Python builds out of the box
LIBS=' -lsocket -lcrypt_i'
+UnixWare: There are known bugs in the math library of the system, as well as
+ problems in the handling of threads (calling fork in one
+ thread may interrupt system calls in others). Therefore, test_math and
+ tests involving threads will fail until those problems are fixed.
+
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.