Python for BeOS R5 In Python-2.1, the standard version of the new setup.py program will not build the full complement of modules on BeOS. Instead, please replace it with the special BeOS version in Misc/BeOS-setup.py. To build, 1) cp Misc/BeOS-setup.py setup.py 2) ./configure --prefix=/boot/home/config 3) make The modules will all build, except termios which assumes some flags we don't have. Put a libreadline.a in /boot/home/config/lib to get a readline.so for your interactive editing convenience; NB, not libreadline.so, you want to link a static readline library into the dynamically loaded Python module. Test: make test The BeOS is Not UNIX category: - test_select crashed -- select.error : (-2147459072, 'Bad file descriptor') - test_socket crashed -- exceptions.AttributeError : SOCK_RAW - test_fcntl crashed -- exceptions.IOError: [Errno -2147483643] Invalid argument This one is funny! BeOS does support large files, and that's why we get this error: the file is too big for my filesystem! - test_largefile crashed -- exceptions.IOError: [Errno -2147459065] No space left on device - 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 - Donn Cave (donn@oz.net) October 4, 2000