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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1999-04-12 19:01:45 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1999-04-12 19:01:45 (GMT) |
| commit | fe23ad72833f2106f7056037778ebebc3023553d (patch) | |
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Add note about popen2 problem on Linux noticed by Pablo Bleyer.
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@@ -193,6 +193,12 @@ Linux: On Linux version 1.x, once you've built Python, use it to run to fail as well, so their removal is a good idea regardless of how you configure python. + More recently, a problem with threads and fork() was tracked + down to a bug in the pthreads code in glibc version 2.0.5; + glibc version 2.0.7 solves the problem. This causes the + popen2 test to fail; problem and solution reported by Pablo + Bleyer. + Also under RedHat Linux 5.0, the crypt module now needs the -lcrypt option. Uncomment this flag in Modules/Setup, or comment out the crypt module in the same file. |