1 Python for BeOS R5

     2 

     3 In Python-2.1, the standard version of the new setup.py program

     4 will not build the full complement of modules on BeOS.  Instead,

     5 please replace it with the special BeOS version in Misc/BeOS-setup.py.

     6 

     7 To build,

     8 

     9    1)  cp Misc/BeOS-setup.py setup.py

    10    2)  ./configure --prefix=/boot/home/config

    11    3)  make

    12 

    13 The modules will all build, except termios which assumes some flags

    14 we don't have.  Put a libreadline.a in /boot/home/config/lib to get

    15 a readline.so for your interactive editing convenience;  NB, not

    16 libreadline.so, you want to link a static readline library into the

    17 dynamically loaded Python module.

    18 

    19 Test:

    20 

    21    make test

    22 

    23    The BeOS is Not UNIX category:

    24  - test_select crashed -- select.error : (-2147459072, 'Bad file descriptor')

    25  - test_socket crashed -- exceptions.AttributeError : SOCK_RAW

    26  - test_fcntl crashed -- exceptions.IOError: [Errno -2147483643] Invalid argument

    27 

    28    This one is funny!  BeOS does support large files, and that's why

    29        we get this error:  the file is too big for my filesystem!

    30  - test_largefile crashed -- exceptions.IOError: [Errno -2147459065]

    31        No space left on device

    32 

    33  - test_pickle crashed.  This is apparently a serious problem, "complex"

    34        number objects reconstructed from a pickle don't compare equal to

    35        their ancestors.  But it happens on BeOS PPC only, not Intel.

    36 

    37 Install:

    38 

    39    make install

    40 

    41 

    42 Maintainer: None (please volunteer if you would like to see this port continue

    43 to exist!)