From 3cc7e4d083916a5171caae453c38d423baae1d91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:30:05 +0000 Subject: Update list of extension modules that may be interesting to enable on most modern Unix flavors. The age of this portion of the README was noted in SourceForge bug #115625. --- README | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 4813b02..dd86dfc 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -459,11 +459,12 @@ next time you run make in the toplevel directory. (When working inside the Modules directory, use "make Makefile; make".) The default collection of modules should build on any Unix system, but -many optional modules should work on all modern Unices (e.g. try dbm, -nis, termios, timing, syslog, curses, new, soundex, parser). Often -the quickest way to determine whether a particular module works or not -is to see if it will build: enable it in Setup, then if you get -compilation or link errors, disable it -- you're missing support. +many optional modules should work on all modern Unices (e.g. try +audioop, imageop, crypt, dbm, gdbm, nis, resource, termios, timing, +syslog, _curses, pyexpat, readline, rgbimg, zlib). Often the quickest +way to determine whether a particular module works or not is to see if +it will build: enable it in Setup, then if you get compilation or link +errors, disable it -- you're missing support. On SGI IRIX, there are modules that interface to many SGI specific system libraries, e.g. the GL library and the audio hardware. -- cgit v0.12