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diff --git a/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx b/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx index e186790..fcf55d2 100644 --- a/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx +++ b/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ Optional modules: Where I've been able to locate the required 3rd party packages already ported to OS/2, I've built and included them. -These include ncurses (_curses, _curses_panel), BSD DB (bsddb185), +These include ncurses (_curses, _curses_panel), GNU GDBM (gdbm, dbm), zlib (zlib), GNU Readline (readline), and GNU UFC (crypt). @@ -150,10 +150,6 @@ Upstream source patches: No updates to the Python 2.6 release have become available. -Eberhard Mattes' EMXFIX04 update to his EMX 0.9d tools suite includes -bug fixes for the BSD DB library. The bsddb module included in this -port incorporates these fixes. - Library and other distributed Python code: The Python standard library lives in the Lib directory. All the standard @@ -326,7 +322,6 @@ Procedure GNU UltraFast Crypt HAVE_UFC Tcl/Tk HAVE_TCLTK (not known to work) GNU Readline HAVE_GREADLINE - BSD DB (v1.85) HAVE_BSDDB ncurses HAVE_NCURSES GNU gdbm HAVE_GDBM libbz2 HAVE_BZ2 @@ -388,52 +383,23 @@ EMXVIEW.ZIP archive as part of the complete EMX development tools suite). Because of other side-effects I have modified the test_fcntl.py test script to deactivate the exercising of the missing functionality. -4. the PyBSDDB3 module has been imported into the Python standard -library, with the intent of superceding the BSDDB 1.85 module (bsddb). -As I don't yet have a satisfactory port of Sleepcat's more recent DB -library (3.3.x/4.0.x/4.1.x), I haven't included a binary of this -module. I have left the Python part of the PyBSDDB package in this -distribution for completeness. - -5. As a consequence of the PyBSDDB3 module being imported, the former -BSD DB (bsddb) module, linked against the DB v1.85 library from EMX, -has been renamed bsddb185. The bsddb185 module will not be built by -default on most platforms, but in the absence of a PyBSDDB3 module I -have retained it in the EMX port. - -Version 1.85 of the DB library is widely known to have bugs, although -some patches have become available (and are incorporated into the -included bsddb185 module). Unless you have problems with software -licenses which would rule out GDBM (and the dbm module because it is -linked against the GDBM library) or need it for file format compatibility, -you may be better off deleting it and relying on GDBM. - -Any code you have which uses the v1.85 bsddb module can be modified to -use the renamed module by changing - - import bsddb - -to - - import bsddb185 as bsddb - -6. The readline module has been linked against ncurses rather than the +4. The readline module has been linked against ncurses rather than the termcap library supplied with EMX. -7. I have configured this port to use "/" as the preferred path separator +5. I have configured this port to use "/" as the preferred path separator character, rather than "\" ('\\'), in line with the convention supported by EMX. Backslashes are still supported of course, and still appear in unexpected places due to outside sources that don't get normalised. -8. While the DistUtils components are now functional, other +6. While the DistUtils components are now functional, other packaging/binary handling tools and utilities such as those included in the Demo and Tools directories - freeze in particular - are unlikely to work. If you do get them going, I'd like to know about your success. -9. I haven't set out to support the [BEGIN|END]LIBPATH functionality +7. I haven't set out to support the [BEGIN|END]LIBPATH functionality supported by one of the earlier ports (Rush's??). If it works let me know. -10. As a result of the limitations imposed by EMX's library routines, the +8. As a result of the limitations imposed by EMX's library routines, the standard extension module pwd only synthesises a simple passwd database, and the grp module cannot be supported at all. @@ -511,11 +477,7 @@ strftime routine - I'm looking into using one from FreeBSD, but its not ready yet. 16. I have successfully built this port with Andy Zabolotny's ports of -pgcc 2.95 and gcc 3.2.1, in addition to EM's gcc 2.8.1. To use the -bsddb185 module with the gcc 3.2.1 build, I had to recompile the DB library -with gcc 3.2.1 - I don't know why, but trying to import the module built -against a DB library compiled with gcc 2.8.1 would result in a SYS3175 -error. +pgcc 2.95 and gcc 3.2.1, in addition to EM's gcc 2.8.1. I have not attempted to compile Python with any version of gcc prior to v2.8.1. |