Python for AtheOS Before building: Make sure you have shared versions of the libraries you want to use with Python. You will have to compile them yourself, or download precompiled packages. Recommended libraries: ncurses-4.2 readline-4.2a zlib-1.1.4 Build: $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/python $ make Python is always built as a shared library, otherwise dynamic loading would not work. Testing: $ make test Install: # make install # pkgmanager -a /usr/python AtheOS issues: - large file support: due to a stdio bug in glibc/libio, access to large files may not work correctly. fseeko() tries to seek to a negative offset. ftello() returns a negative offset, it looks like a 32->64bit sign-extension issue. The lowlevel functions (open, lseek, etc) are OK. - sockets: AF_UNIX is defined in the C library and in Python, but not implemented in the system. - select: poll is available in the C library, but does not work (It does not return POLLNVAL for bad fds and hangs). - posix: statvfs and fstatvfs always return ENOSYS. - - disabled modules: - mmap: not yet implemented in AtheOS - nis: broken (on an unconfigured system yp_get_default_domain() returns junk instead of error) - dl: dynamic loading doesn't work via dlopen() - resource: getrimit and setrlimit are not yet implemented - if you are getting segmentation faults, you probably are low on memory. AtheOS doesn't handle very well an out-of-memory condition and simply SEGVs the process. Tested on: AtheOS-0.3.7 gcc-2.95 binutils-2.10 make-3.78 -- Octavian Cerna <tavy@ylabs.com>