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diff --git a/BeOS/README b/BeOS/README index c801afb..a4d6aee 100644 --- a/BeOS/README +++ b/BeOS/README @@ -1,19 +1,12 @@ -Python 1.5.1 for BeOS +Python 1.5.x (x > 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). +ar-fake - A shell script used by the build process to emulate a "real" + POSIX ar command; helps to build the Python shared library. linkcc - A shell script used by the build process to build the Python shared library. @@ -41,100 +34,59 @@ README.readline-2.2 - Instructions for compiling/installing GNU readline 2.2. 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/...). +To compile your own version of Python 1.5.x for BeOS (with any luck, +Python 1.5.2 and later will compile "out of the box" on BeOS), try this: -3) Compile and install the POSIX ar from the ar-1.1 directory; see the - README in there for details. +1) Get the latest Python source code from ftp.python.org. -4) Configure with: +2) Configure with: - AR=ar-posix RANLIB=: ./configure --verbose --without-gcc \ + AR=$(pwd)/BeOS/ar-fake RANLIB=: ./configure --verbose --without-gcc \ --prefix=/boot/home/config --with-thread - The only strange thing that happens during the configure is that - we fail the "genuine getopt()" test; this is odd because we've got - a real live GNU getopt() in the system libs. Other packages built - using configure (such as all of the goodies in GeekGadgets) suffer - the same fate though, so it's not a Python problem. +3) Copy Modules/Setup.in to Modules/Setup. -5) Copy Modules/Setup.in to Modules/Setup. +4) Edit Modules/Setup to turn on all the modules you want built. -6) Edit Modules/Setup to turn on all the modules you want built. I've - personally built the following modules: + Make sure you use _socket instead of socket for the name of the + socketmodule on BeOS. - array, audioop, binascii, cPickle, cStringIO, cmath, crypt, curses, - errno, fcntl, gdbm, grp, imageop, math, md5, new, operator, parser, - pcre, posix, pwd, readline, regex, reop, rgbimg, rotor, select, - signal, socket, soundex, strop, struct, syslog, termios, thread, - time, timing, zlib + If you want the modules to be built as shared libraries, instead of as + part of the Python shared library, be sure to uncomment the #*shared* + line. - Newly compiled/tested with 1.5.1: - - _locale +5) Make sure Modules/Makefile.pre has REALLIBRARY set to: - You can get precompiled gdbm, ncurses, and zlib libraries from the - GeekGadgets repository (ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/geekgadgets/...). - - Make sure you use _socket instead of socket for the name of the - socketmodule on BeOS. + REALLIBRARY=../libpython$(VERSION).so -7) Make: +6) Make: - make - - or, if you feel the need for speed: - - make OPT="-O7 -opt schedule604" + make AR=$(pwd)/BeOS/ar-fake RANLIB=: OPT=-DUSE_DL_EXPORT \ + CCSHARED=-UUSE_DL_EXPORT - You can safely ignore any warnings you see during the build (and you'll - see several if you use full warnings; I compiled the distribution with - -w9 -ansi strict and cleaned up any errors...). +7) Test: -8) Test: - - make test + make AR=$(pwd)/BeOS/ar-fake RANLIB=: OPT=-DUSE_DL_EXPORT \ + CCSHARED=-UUSE_DL_EXPORT 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 + sockets), or valid differences between systems. -10) Enjoy! + NOTE: On R4/x86, the pause() function is broken; expect the signal + module test to crash Python! -NOTE +8) Install: -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). + make AR=$(pwd)/BeOS/ar-fake RANLIB=: OPT=-DUSE_DL_EXPORT \ + CCSHARED=-UUSE_DL_EXPORT install -Mixing modules linked against the shared library with a statically-linked -interpreter is a bad idea (and it'll fail in _interesting_ ways). +9) Enjoy! - Chris Herborth (chrish@qnx.com) - April 25, 1998 + December 17, 1998 diff --git a/BeOS/linkcc b/BeOS/linkcc index 9b95635..e3708c1 100755 --- a/BeOS/linkcc +++ b/BeOS/linkcc @@ -24,23 +24,20 @@ # For BeOS we should set $(LINKCC) to this in configure (similar to the # AIX situation): # -# $(srcdir)../BeOS/linkcc $(LIBRARY) $(PURIFY) $(CC) -nodup $(OPT) +# $(srcdir)../BeOS/linkcc $(LIBRARY) $(PURIFY) $(CC) $(OPT) # # -L.. -lpython$(VERSION) will automagically pick up the shared library. - -# Check to make sure we know what we're doing. -system="`uname -m`" -if [ "$system" != "BeMac" ] && [ "$system" != "BeBox" ] ; then - echo "Sorry, BeOS Python doesn't support x86 yet." - exit 1 -fi +# +# As of Python 1.5.2, this isn't strictly necessary, but it makes me +# feel safer. It makes sure we've got all the BeOS-specific libraries, +# and it creates the "lib" symlink that we'll need for chance of running +# "make test" successfully. LIBRARY="$1"; shift # What we want to end up with. -EXPORTS=${LIBRARY%.a}.exp DYNAMIC=${LIBRARY%.a}.so -LINK_DYNAMIC="-l`echo ${DYNAMIC%.so} | sed -e s,\\\.\\\./,, -e s,lib,,`" +LINK_DYNAMIC="-l$(basename ${DYNAMIC%.so} | sed -e s,lib,,)" # Grab the rest of the args and build them into the command used to # link the python binary. Make sure we link against the shared lib @@ -52,6 +49,7 @@ while [ "$#" != "0" ] ; do LINK_CMD="$LINK_CMD -L.. $LINK_DYNAMIC" shift ;; + *) LINK_CMD="$LINK_CMD $1" shift @@ -59,42 +57,12 @@ while [ "$#" != "0" ] ; do esac done -# The shared libraries and glue objects we need to link against. +# The shared libraries and glue objects we need to link against; this is +# a little overkill, but it'll be OK. LIBS="-lbe -lnet -lroot" -GLUE="/boot/develop/lib/ppc/glue-noinit.a /boot/develop/lib/ppc/init_term_dyn.o" - -# Unwanted symbols we need to eliminate; these are regular expressions -# passed to egrep. -SYMS="opterr optind optarg getopt __.* longjmp _.*_" - -# Check to see if we've already got an exports file, and delete it if -# it's older than the lib. -if [ -e $EXPORTS ] && [ $LIBRARY -nt $EXPORTS ] ; then - echo "Deleting old exports file for $DYNAMIC..." - rm -f $EXPORTS -fi - -if [ ! -e $EXPORTS ] ; then - # First link; create the exports file with the unwanted global symbols - # in it. It's a pity we don't have "nm" or something like that... - rm -f temp-exports.exp - mwcc -xms -f temp-exports.exp -o $DYNAMIC $LIBRARY $GLUE $LIBS -nodup - - # Now clean out those bad symbols. - for sym in $SYMS ; do - rm -f temp-exports.exp2 - egrep -v "^$sym$" < temp-exports.exp > temp-exports.exp2 - mv -f temp-exports.exp2 temp-exports.exp - done - - rm -f temp-exports.exp2 - mv -f temp-exports.exp $EXPORTS -fi - -# Now link against the clean exports file. -mwcc -xms -f $EXPORTS -o $DYNAMIC $LIBRARY $GLUE $LIBS -nodup -# We'll need this or the python binary won't load libpython.so... +# We'll need this or the python binary won't load libpython.so... handy +# for testing. ( cd .. ; ln -sf `pwd` lib ) # Now build the python binary. diff --git a/BeOS/linkmodule b/BeOS/linkmodule index f0a6f9f..575f2bd 100755 --- a/BeOS/linkmodule +++ b/BeOS/linkmodule @@ -4,12 +4,11 @@ # Chris Herborth (chrish@qnx.com) # # This is covered by the same copyright/licensing terms as the rest of -# Python +# Python. # -# Shell script to build shared library versions of the modules; the -# idea is to build an export list containing only the init*() function -# for the module. We _could_ assume for foomodule.o it was initfoo, but -# that's asking for trouble... this is a little less efficient but correct. +# Shell script to build shared library versions of the modules; since +# the change to the *ahem* "proper" import/export mechanism, this script +# is much simpler. It handles PowerPC and x86, too. # # This is called by the Modules/Makefile as $(LDSHARED): # @@ -19,13 +18,8 @@ # # $(LDSHARED) readline.o -L/boot/home/config/lib -lreadline -ltermcap \ # -o readline$(SO) - -# Check to make sure we know what we're doing. -system="`uname -m`" -if [ "$system" != "BeMac" ] && [ "$system" != "BeBox" ] ; then - echo "Sorry, BeOS Python doesn't support x86 yet." - exit 1 -fi +# +# so we need to preserve the arguments, sort of. # Make sure we got reasonable arguments. TARGET="" @@ -45,26 +39,37 @@ if [ "$TARGET" = "" ] ; then echo echo "Where:" echo - echo " [args] normal mwcc arguments" + echo " [args] normal compiler arguments" exit 1 fi -EXPORTS=${TARGET%.so}.exp - # The shared libraries and glue objects we need to link against; these # libs are overkill for most of the standard modules, but it makes life # in this shell script easier. LIBS="-L.. -lpython1.5 -lbe -lnet -lroot" -GLUE="/boot/develop/lib/ppc/glue-noinit.a /boot/develop/lib/ppc/init_term_dyn.o" -# Check to see if we've already got an exports file; we don't need to -# update this once we've got it because we only ever want to export -# one symbol. -if [ ! -e $EXPORTS ] ; then - # The init*() function has to be related to the module's .so name - # for importdl to work. - echo init${TARGET%.so} | sed -e s/module// > $EXPORTS -fi +case $BE_HOST_CPU in + ppc) + # Boy, do we need a lot of crap... + GLUE_LOC=/boot/develop/lib/ppc + GLUE="${GLUE_LOC}/glue-noinit.a ${GLUE_LOC}/init_term_dyn.o" + CC="mwcc -xms -export pragma -nodup" + ;; + + x86) + # We don't need as much crap here... + GLUE="" + CC="gcc -nostart -Wl,-soname=${TARGET}" + ;; + + *) + # What the?!? + echo "$0 doesn't support $BE_HOST_CPU systems..." + echo "You're on your own... I'd be surprised if this works." + GLUE="" + CC="cc" + ;; +esac -# Now link against the clean exports file. -mwcc -xms -f $EXPORTS -o $TARGET $ARGS $GLUE $LIBS -nodup +# Now link that shared lib... +$CC -o $TARGET $ARGS $GLUE $LIBS |