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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 |