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diff --git a/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx b/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx index c52a0eb..7c8a52d 100644 --- a/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx +++ b/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx @@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ Procedure ncurses HAVE_NCURSES GNU gdbm HAVE_GDBM libbz2 HAVE_BZ2 + OpenSSL HAVE_OPENSSL Please note that you need to check that what you have installed is compatible with Python's build options. In particular, the @@ -651,6 +652,22 @@ implementation in IBM's TCP/IP stack:- 27. As of Python 2.4, the mpz, rotor and xreadlines modules have been dropped from the Python source tree. +28. The subprocess module was added to the standard library relatively +late in the 2.4 development cycle. Unfortunately I haven't had the +round tuits to adapt the module to the EMX environment yet, and +test_subprocess has a number of failures as a result. + +29. The default stack size for threads has been 64k. This is proving +insufficient for some codebases, such as Zope. The thread stack size +still defaults to 64k, but this can now be increased by defining +THREAD_STACK_SIZE to an appropriate value in the Makefile (which contains +a commented out definition for 128kB thread stacks). I have seen +references to heavy Zope/Plone usage requiring 1MB thread stacks on +FreeBSD and Linux, but doubt that for most likely usage on OS/2 that +more than 256kB is necessary. The size of the required stacks (main +and thread) can vary significantly depending on which version of gcc +is used along with the compiler optimisations selected. + ... probably other issues that I've not encountered, or don't remember :-( If you encounter other difficulties with this port, which can be @@ -690,4 +707,4 @@ Andrew MacIntyre E-mail: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au, or andymac@pcug.org.au Web: http://www.andymac.org/ -3 October, 2004. +17 February, 2005. |