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@@ -85,6 +85,11 @@ access. The documentation is available in HTML, PostScript, PDF, and LaTeX formats; the LaTeX version is primarily for documentation authors, translators, and people with special formatting requirements. +The best documentation for the new (in Python 2.2) type/class unification +features is Guido's tutorial introduction, at + + http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html + Web sites --------- @@ -394,22 +399,24 @@ Reliant UNIX: The thread support does not compile on Reliant UNIX, and Mac OS X 10: One of the regular expression tests fails with a SEGV due to the small stack size used by default, if you do "limit stacksize 2048" before "make test" it should work. - + On naked Darwin you may want to add the configure option "--disable-toolbox-glue" to disable the glue code for the Carbon interface modules. The modules themselves are currently only built if you add the --enable-framework option, see below. - - On a clean OSX /usr/local does not exist. Do a "sudo mkdir -m 775 /usr/local" + + On a clean OSX /usr/local does not exist. Do a + "sudo mkdir -m 775 /usr/local" before you do a make install. Alternatively, do "sudo make install" which installs everything as superuser. - - You may want to try the configure option "--enable-framework" which - installs Python as a framework. The location can be set as argument - to the --enable-framework option (default /Library/Frameworks). You may - also want to check out ./Mac/OSX for building a Python.app. You may also - want to manually install a symlink in /usr/local/bin/python to the - executable deep down in the framework. + + You may want to try the configure option "--enable-framework" + which installs Python as a framework. The location can be set + as argument to the --enable-framework option (default + /Library/Frameworks). You may also want to check out ./Mac/OSX + for building a Python.app. You may also want to manually + install a symlink in /usr/local/bin/python to the executable + deep down in the framework. Cygwin: With recent (relative to the time of writing, 2001-12-11) Cygwin installations, Python builds and passes all tests on @@ -826,6 +833,11 @@ configuration of your system. Most symbols must simply be defined as otherwise; however the *_t type symbols must be defined as some variant of int if they need to be defined at all. +For all platforms, it's important that the build arrange to define the +preprocessor symbol NDEBUG on the compiler command line in a release +build of Python (else assert() calls remain in the code, hurting +release-build performance). The Unix, Windows and Mac builds already +do this. Miscellaneous issues |