From bd3e88893ed91d8f4bb36a81767f57f30f3cb7a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Schemenauer Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 03:23:11 +0000 Subject: Moved BeOS/README to Misc/BeOS-NOTES. --- BeOS/README | 93 --------------------------------------------------------- Misc/BeOS-NOTES | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 BeOS/README create mode 100644 Misc/BeOS-NOTES diff --git a/BeOS/README b/BeOS/README deleted file mode 100644 index 90013ee..0000000 --- a/BeOS/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,93 +0,0 @@ -Python for BeOS R5 - -This directory contains several useful things to help you build your own -version of Python for BeOS. - -What's Here? - -ar-fake - A shell script that copies around .o files, for the as much - of the general effect of ar as we need but more fool-proof. - It also has an "so" command to build the shared library - that we actually install and use. - -linkmodule - A shell script used by the build process to build the - shared library versions of the standard modules; you'll - probably need this if you want to build dynamically loaded - modules from the Python archives. - -README - This file (obviously!). - -README.readline-2.2 - Instructions for compiling/installing GNU readline 2.2. - You'll have to grab the GNU readline source code from - prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/GNU or any other GNU mirror. - - The Python interpreter is much nicer to work with - interactively if you've got readline installed. Highly - recommended. - -To build, - - 1) ./configure --prefix=/boot/home/config - - 2) edit Modules/Setup - comment out grp and mmap, and pwd on 4.5 or earlier - uncomment any modules you want to include in python - (you can also add them later as shared libraries.) - 3) make - -Test: - - make test - - [Chris Herborth writes:] - test_popen2 will probably hang; it's deadlocked on a semaphore. I should - probably disable popen2 support... it uses fork(), and fork() doesn't mix - with threads on BeOS. In *THEORY* you could use it in a single-threaded - program, but I haven't tried. - - If test_popen2 does hang, you can find the semaphore it's hung on via the - "ps" command. Look for python and you'll find something like this: - -./python -tt ../src/Lib/test/regrtest.py (team 26922) (uid 0) (gid 0) - 39472 python sem 10 3785 1500 piperd(360526) -./python -tt ../src/Lib/test/regrtest.py (team 26923) (uid 0) (gid 0) - 39477 python sem 10 25 4 python lock (1)(360022) - ^^^^^^ - That last number is the semaphore the fork()'d python is stuck on - (see how it's helpfully called "python lock (1)"? :-). You can unblock - that semaphore to let the tests continue using the "release" command - with that semaphore number. Be _very_ careful with "release" though, - releasing the wrong semaphore can be hazardous. - - Expect the following errors: - - test * skipped -- an optional feature could not be imported (you'll see - quite a few of these, based on what optional modules - you've included) - - test test_fork1 skipped -- can't mix os.fork with threads on BeOS - - test test_select crashed -- select.error : (-2147459072, 'Bad file - descriptor') - - test 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. - - test test_pickle crashed. This is apparently a serious problem, - "complex" number objects reconstructed from a - pickle don't compare equal to their ancestors. - But it happens on BeOS PPC only, not Intel. - -Install: - - make install - -Enjoy! - -- Chris Herborth (chrish@pobox.com) - July 21, 2000 - -- Donn Cave (donn@oz.net) - October 4, 2000 diff --git a/Misc/BeOS-NOTES b/Misc/BeOS-NOTES new file mode 100644 index 0000000..90013ee --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/BeOS-NOTES @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +Python for BeOS R5 + +This directory contains several useful things to help you build your own +version of Python for BeOS. + +What's Here? + +ar-fake - A shell script that copies around .o files, for the as much + of the general effect of ar as we need but more fool-proof. + It also has an "so" command to build the shared library + that we actually install and use. + +linkmodule - A shell script used by the build process to build the + shared library versions of the standard modules; you'll + probably need this if you want to build dynamically loaded + modules from the Python archives. + +README - This file (obviously!). + +README.readline-2.2 - Instructions for compiling/installing GNU readline 2.2. + You'll have to grab the GNU readline source code from + prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/GNU or any other GNU mirror. + + The Python interpreter is much nicer to work with + interactively if you've got readline installed. Highly + recommended. + +To build, + + 1) ./configure --prefix=/boot/home/config + + 2) edit Modules/Setup + comment out grp and mmap, and pwd on 4.5 or earlier + uncomment any modules you want to include in python + (you can also add them later as shared libraries.) + 3) make + +Test: + + make test + + [Chris Herborth writes:] + test_popen2 will probably hang; it's deadlocked on a semaphore. I should + probably disable popen2 support... it uses fork(), and fork() doesn't mix + with threads on BeOS. In *THEORY* you could use it in a single-threaded + program, but I haven't tried. + + If test_popen2 does hang, you can find the semaphore it's hung on via the + "ps" command. Look for python and you'll find something like this: + +./python -tt ../src/Lib/test/regrtest.py (team 26922) (uid 0) (gid 0) + 39472 python sem 10 3785 1500 piperd(360526) +./python -tt ../src/Lib/test/regrtest.py (team 26923) (uid 0) (gid 0) + 39477 python sem 10 25 4 python lock (1)(360022) + ^^^^^^ + That last number is the semaphore the fork()'d python is stuck on + (see how it's helpfully called "python lock (1)"? :-). You can unblock + that semaphore to let the tests continue using the "release" command + with that semaphore number. Be _very_ careful with "release" though, + releasing the wrong semaphore can be hazardous. + + Expect the following errors: + + test * skipped -- an optional feature could not be imported (you'll see + quite a few of these, based on what optional modules + you've included) + + test test_fork1 skipped -- can't mix os.fork with threads on BeOS + + test test_select crashed -- select.error : (-2147459072, 'Bad file + descriptor') + + test 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. + + test test_pickle crashed. This is apparently a serious problem, + "complex" number objects reconstructed from a + pickle don't compare equal to their ancestors. + But it happens on BeOS PPC only, not Intel. + +Install: + + make install + +Enjoy! + +- Chris Herborth (chrish@pobox.com) + July 21, 2000 + +- Donn Cave (donn@oz.net) + October 4, 2000 -- cgit v0.12