cpython-lru_cache-weakref: README annotate

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author	Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>
date	Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:11:25 +0000
parents	4180557b7a9b
children	d2e1027edde8

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58744 4180557b7a9b bump version to 2.7a3 Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> parents: 58213 diff changeset	1 This is Python version 2.7 alpha 3
50024 ff2263de0d6f be more specific, and parallel to the py3k branch Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 50021 diff changeset	2 ==================================
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	3
58058 fce6611241d1 more copyright year updates Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> parents: 57576 diff changeset	4 Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
40561 4105570da30a update to (c) years to include 2007 Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 40408 diff changeset	5 Python Software Foundation.
15986 bd5aee6b8390 Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 15546 diff changeset	6 All rights reserved.
bd5aee6b8390 Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 15546 diff changeset	7
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	8 Copyright (c) 2000 BeOpen.com.
648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	9 All rights reserved.
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17458 0d0546bd8448 Because this code was derived from Python 1.6.1 (amongst others), the Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 17311 diff changeset	11 Copyright (c) 1995-2001 Corporation for National Research Initiatives.
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	12 All rights reserved.
12374 f57af360b7e5 Add weasel-words about versioning, so I don't have to check in a new Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 12205 diff changeset	13
14385 39ab28572307 Remove a comma from CWI's copyright notice. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14367 diff changeset	14 Copyright (c) 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum.
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	15 All rights reserved.
648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	16
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	17
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	18 License information
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648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	20
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	21 See the file "LICENSE" for information on the history of this
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	22 software, terms & conditions for usage, and a DISCLAIMER OF ALL
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	23 WARRANTIES.
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	24
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	25 This Python distribution contains no GNU General Public Licensed
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	26 (GPLed) code so it may be used in proprietary projects just like prior
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	27 Python distributions. There are interfaces to some GNU code but these
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	28 are entirely optional.
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	29
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	30 All trademarks referenced herein are property of their respective
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	31 holders.
6837 96181a4a5482 Prepared the README for 1.5b2. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6773 diff changeset	32
96181a4a5482 Prepared the README for 1.5b2. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6773 diff changeset	33
3887 957f42ea0f84 Numerous changes, but still a lot of XXX thingies. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3850 diff changeset	34 What's new in this release?
957f42ea0f84 Numerous changes, but still a lot of XXX thingies. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3850 diff changeset	35 ---------------------------
3850 d1cff49e3cc8 Various changes (not done yet even for beta2 release) Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3778 diff changeset	36
15986 bd5aee6b8390 Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 15546 diff changeset	37 See the file "Misc/NEWS".
6675 cdb3279b06e7 Revamped README for release of 1.5b1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6494 diff changeset	38
34629 080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	39
6675 cdb3279b06e7 Revamped README for release of 1.5b1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6494 diff changeset	40 If you don't read instructions
cdb3279b06e7 Revamped README for release of 1.5b1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6494 diff changeset	41 ------------------------------
cdb3279b06e7 Revamped README for release of 1.5b1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6494 diff changeset	42
cdb3279b06e7 Revamped README for release of 1.5b1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6494 diff changeset	43 Congratulations on getting this far. :-)
cdb3279b06e7 Revamped README for release of 1.5b1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6494 diff changeset	44
cdb3279b06e7 Revamped README for release of 1.5b1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6494 diff changeset	45 To start building right away (on UNIX): type "./configure" in the
21865 53fecc8dd4c9 Quick build: clarify that you have to do "make install" as root; OS Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21632 diff changeset	46 current directory and when it finishes, type "make". This creates an
53fecc8dd4c9 Quick build: clarify that you have to do "make install" as root; OS Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21632 diff changeset	47 executable "./python"; to install in /usr/local, first do "su root"
53fecc8dd4c9 Quick build: clarify that you have to do "make install" as root; OS Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21632 diff changeset	48 and then "make install".
53fecc8dd4c9 Quick build: clarify that you have to do "make install" as root; OS Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21632 diff changeset	49
34629 080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	50 The section `Build instructions' below is still recommended reading.
3850 d1cff49e3cc8 Various changes (not done yet even for beta2 release) Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3778 diff changeset	51
d1cff49e3cc8 Various changes (not done yet even for beta2 release) Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3778 diff changeset	52
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	53 What is Python anyway?
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3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	55
34629 080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	56 Python is an interpreted, interactive object-oriented programming
080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	57 language suitable (amongst other uses) for distributed application
080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	58 development, scripting, numeric computing and system testing. Python
080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	59 is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic or
080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	60 Scheme. To find out more about what Python can do for you, point your
080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	61 browser to http://www.python.org/.
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	62
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	63
4501 559aa47b2e2c Ready for release. Added section on the book. Removed bugs/gripes emails. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4427 diff changeset	64 How do I learn Python?
559aa47b2e2c Ready for release. Added section on the book. Removed bugs/gripes emails. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4427 diff changeset	65 ----------------------
559aa47b2e2c Ready for release. Added section on the book. Removed bugs/gripes emails. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4427 diff changeset	66
10862 4f5d4945605c Added "Learning Python" to the books section. Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 10587 diff changeset	67 The official tutorial is still a good place to start; see
34629 080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	68 http://docs.python.org/ for online and downloadable versions, as well
080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	69 as a list of other introductions, and reference documentation.
10862 4f5d4945605c Added "Learning Python" to the books section. Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 10587 diff changeset	70
12205 253cdeeaf42e Quick update to the README file. For intros and books we now point to Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 11474 diff changeset	71 There's a quickly growing set of books on Python. See
35097 860d7f93e6b4 Update URL. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34929 diff changeset	72 http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBooks for a list.
5591 da475e107a68 Minor edits for 1.5a2 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 5525 diff changeset	73
4501 559aa47b2e2c Ready for release. Added section on the book. Removed bugs/gripes emails. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4427 diff changeset	74
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	75 Documentation
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648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	77
648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	78 All documentation is provided online in a variety of formats. In
648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	79 order of importance for new users: Tutorial, Library Reference,
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	80 Language Reference, Extending & Embedding, and the Python/C API. The
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	81 Library Reference is especially of immense value since much of
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	82 Python's power is described there, including the built-in data types
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	83 and functions!
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	84
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	85 All documentation is also available online at the Python web site
46205 c11221906171 Updated README regarding doc formats Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> parents: 45673 diff changeset	86 (http://docs.python.org/, see below). It is available online for occasional
c11221906171 Updated README regarding doc formats Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> parents: 45673 diff changeset	87 reference, or can be downloaded in many formats for faster access. The
46206 07f75d5519b4 The other download formats will be available for 2.6 too. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46205 diff changeset	88 documentation is downloadable in HTML, PostScript, PDF, LaTeX, and
46205 c11221906171 Updated README regarding doc formats Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> parents: 45673 diff changeset	89 reStructuredText (2.6+) formats; the LaTeX and reStructuredText versions are
c11221906171 Updated README regarding doc formats Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> parents: 45673 diff changeset	90 primarily for documentation authors, translators, and people with special
c11221906171 Updated README regarding doc formats Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> parents: 45673 diff changeset	91 formatting requirements.
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	92
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14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	94 Web sites
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14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	96
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	97 New Python releases and related technologies are published at
15986 bd5aee6b8390 Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 15546 diff changeset	98 http://www.python.org/. Come visit us!
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	99
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	100
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	101 Newsgroups and Mailing Lists
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14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	103
648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	104 Read comp.lang.python, a high-volume discussion newsgroup about
648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	105 Python, or comp.lang.python.announce, a low-volume moderated newsgroup
648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	106 for Python-related announcements. These are also accessible as
55721 675a3c1824f4 #6775: fix python.org URLs in README. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 55091 diff changeset	107 mailing lists: see http://www.python.org/community/lists/ for an
34629 080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	108 overview of these and many other Python-related mailing lists.
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	109
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	110 Archives are accessible via the Google Groups Usenet archive; see
23962 111c1e59ad72 Random tweaks & updates. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 23867 diff changeset	111 http://groups.google.com/. The mailing lists are also archived, see
55721 675a3c1824f4 #6775: fix python.org URLs in README. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 55091 diff changeset	112 http://www.python.org/community/lists/ for details.
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	113
648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	114
648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	115 Bug reports
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14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	118 To report or search for bugs, please use the Python Bug
55721 675a3c1824f4 #6775: fix python.org URLs in README. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 55091 diff changeset	119 Tracker at http://bugs.python.org/.
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	120
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648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	122 Patches and contributions
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1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	124
15325 65594feb5527 Try to clarify when the Modules/Setup file should be edited. Added Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 15249 diff changeset	125 To submit a patch or other contribution, please use the Python Patch
55721 675a3c1824f4 #6775: fix python.org URLs in README. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 55091 diff changeset	126 Manager at http://bugs.python.org/. Guidelines
44472 9019086fd20a Update links to bug/patch tracker Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> parents: 44285 diff changeset	127 for patch submission may be found at http://www.python.org/dev/patches/.
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	128
46260 2b0ecc7fd7ee Suggested proposed changes to Python be considered on some mailing lists first Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> parents: 46206 diff changeset	129 If you have a proposal to change Python, you may want to send an email to the
2b0ecc7fd7ee Suggested proposed changes to Python be considered on some mailing lists first Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> parents: 46206 diff changeset	130 comp.lang.python or python-ideas mailing lists for inital feedback. A Python
2b0ecc7fd7ee Suggested proposed changes to Python be considered on some mailing lists first Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> parents: 46206 diff changeset	131 Enhancement Proposal (PEP) may be submitted if your idea gains ground. All
2b0ecc7fd7ee Suggested proposed changes to Python be considered on some mailing lists first Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> parents: 46206 diff changeset	132 current PEPs, as well as guidelines for submitting a new PEP, are listed at
2b0ecc7fd7ee Suggested proposed changes to Python be considered on some mailing lists first Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> parents: 46206 diff changeset	133 http://www.python.org/dev/peps/.
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	134
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648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	136 Questions
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648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	139 For help, if you can't find it in the manuals or on the web site, it's
648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	140 best to post to the comp.lang.python or the Python mailing list (see
648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	141 above). If you specifically don't want to involve the newsgroup or
15986 bd5aee6b8390 Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 15546 diff changeset	142 mailing list, send questions to help@python.org (a group of volunteers
bd5aee6b8390 Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 15546 diff changeset	143 who answer questions as they can). The newsgroup is the most
bd5aee6b8390 Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 15546 diff changeset	144 efficient way to ask public questions.
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	145
13155 9919d65edc76 Tentative 2.0 and BeOpen upgrade. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 12374 diff changeset	146
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	147 Build instructions
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	148 ==================
1453 d773a5f89426 New files Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: diff changeset	149
21900 57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	150 Before you can build Python, you must first configure it.
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	151 Fortunately, the configuration and build process has been automated
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	152 for Unix and Linux installations, so all you usually have to do is
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	153 type a few commands and sit back. There are some platforms where
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	154 things are not quite as smooth; see the platform specific notes below.
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	155 If you want to build for multiple platforms sharing the same source
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	156 tree, see the section on VPATH below.
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	157
21900 57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	158 Start by running the script "./configure", which determines your
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	159 system configuration and creates the Makefile. (It takes a minute or
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	160 two -- please be patient!) You may want to pass options to the
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	161 configure script -- see the section below on configuration options and
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	162 variables. When it's done, you are ready to run make.
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	163
21900 57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	164 To build Python, you normally type "make" in the toplevel directory.
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	165 If you have changed the configuration, the Makefile may have to be
51875 58bbeb33f583 comma Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> parents: 51874 diff changeset	166 rebuilt. In this case, you may have to run make again to correctly
21900 57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	167 build your desired target. The interpreter executable is built in the
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	168 top level directory.
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	169
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	170 Once you have built a Python interpreter, see the subsections below on
21900 57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	171 testing and installation. If you run into trouble, see the next
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	172 section.
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	173
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	174 Previous versions of Python used a manual configuration process that
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	175 involved editing the file Modules/Setup. While this file still exists
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	176 and manual configuration is still supported, it is rarely needed any
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	177 more: almost all modules are automatically built as appropriate under
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	178 guidance of the setup.py script, which is run by Make after the
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	179 interpreter has been built.
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	180
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	181
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	182 Troubleshooting
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	183 ---------------
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	184
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	185 See also the platform specific notes in the next section.
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	186
34629 080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	187 If you run into other trouble, see the FAQ
55721 675a3c1824f4 #6775: fix python.org URLs in README. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 55091 diff changeset	188 (http://www.python.org/doc/faq/) for hints on what can go wrong, and
34629 080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	189 how to fix it.
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	190
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	191 If you rerun the configure script with different options, remove all
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	192 object files by running "make clean" before rebuilding. Believe it or
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	193 not, "make clean" sometimes helps to clean up other inexplicable
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	194 problems as well. Try it before sending in a bug report!
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	195
4134 69edc67e5a68 Updated for 1.4beta3 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3922 diff changeset	196 If the configure script fails or doesn't seem to find things that
34629 080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	197 should be there, inspect the config.log file.
6448 b854ca4605e1 Ready for the release, I'd say. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6132 diff changeset	198
b854ca4605e1 Ready for the release, I'd say. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6132 diff changeset	199 If you get a warning for every file about the -Olimit option being no
b854ca4605e1 Ready for the release, I'd say. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6132 diff changeset	200 longer supported, you can ignore it. There's no foolproof way to know
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	201 whether this option is needed; all we can do is test whether it is
6448 b854ca4605e1 Ready for the release, I'd say. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6132 diff changeset	202 accepted without error. On some systems, e.g. older SGI compilers, it
b854ca4605e1 Ready for the release, I'd say. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6132 diff changeset	203 is essential for performance (specifically when compiling ceval.c,
b854ca4605e1 Ready for the release, I'd say. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6132 diff changeset	204 which has more basic blocks than the default limit of 1000). If the
b854ca4605e1 Ready for the release, I'd say. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6132 diff changeset	205 warning bothers you, edit the Makefile to remove "-Olimit 1500" from
b854ca4605e1 Ready for the release, I'd say. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6132 diff changeset	206 the OPT variable.
4134 69edc67e5a68 Updated for 1.4beta3 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3922 diff changeset	207
14249 4e3640a06857 Various tweaks and improvements by Thomas Wouters (who apparently lost Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14144 diff changeset	208 If you get failures in test_long, or sys.maxint gets set to -1, you
4e3640a06857 Various tweaks and improvements by Thomas Wouters (who apparently lost Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14144 diff changeset	209 are probably experiencing compiler bugs, usually related to
26240 e42997acc7f1 Explain what to do in case of missing shared libraries. Remove mentioning Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26154 diff changeset	210 optimization. This is a common problem with some versions of gcc, and
e42997acc7f1 Explain what to do in case of missing shared libraries. Remove mentioning Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26154 diff changeset	211 some vendor-supplied compilers, which can sometimes be worked around
e42997acc7f1 Explain what to do in case of missing shared libraries. Remove mentioning Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26154 diff changeset	212 by turning off optimization. Consider switching to stable versions
34042 7a12904438d6 update gcc ref Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 33393 diff changeset	213 (gcc 2.95.2, gcc 3.x, or contact your vendor.)
14249 4e3640a06857 Various tweaks and improvements by Thomas Wouters (who apparently lost Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14144 diff changeset	214
4e3640a06857 Various tweaks and improvements by Thomas Wouters (who apparently lost Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14144 diff changeset	215 From Python 2.0 onward, all Python C code is ANSI C. Compiling using
4e3640a06857 Various tweaks and improvements by Thomas Wouters (who apparently lost Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14144 diff changeset	216 old K&R-C-only compilers is no longer possible. ANSI C compilers are
4e3640a06857 Various tweaks and improvements by Thomas Wouters (who apparently lost Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14144 diff changeset	217 available for all modern systems, either in the form of updated
26240 e42997acc7f1 Explain what to do in case of missing shared libraries. Remove mentioning Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26154 diff changeset	218 compilers from the vendor, or one of the free compilers (gcc).
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	219
40341 f91b6d85cab5 Bug #1594809: add a note to README regarding PYTHONPATH and make install. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 39510 diff changeset	220 If "make install" fails mysteriously during the "compiling the library"
f91b6d85cab5 Bug #1594809: add a note to README regarding PYTHONPATH and make install. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 39510 diff changeset	221 step, make sure that you don't have any of the PYTHONPATH or PYTHONHOME
f91b6d85cab5 Bug #1594809: add a note to README regarding PYTHONPATH and make install. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 39510 diff changeset	222 environment variables set, as they may interfere with the newly built
f91b6d85cab5 Bug #1594809: add a note to README regarding PYTHONPATH and make install. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 39510 diff changeset	223 executable which is compiling the library.
f91b6d85cab5 Bug #1594809: add a note to README regarding PYTHONPATH and make install. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 39510 diff changeset	224
26499 76f79bb36fc7 Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26496 diff changeset	225 Unsupported systems
76f79bb36fc7 Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26496 diff changeset	226 -------------------
76f79bb36fc7 Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26496 diff changeset	227
39156 a4c4b7ea79c0 Update list of unsupported systems. Fixes #1510853. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 39048 diff changeset	228 A number of features are not supported in Python 2.5 anymore. Some
a4c4b7ea79c0 Update list of unsupported systems. Fixes #1510853. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 39048 diff changeset	229 support code is still present, but will be removed in Python 2.6.
26499 76f79bb36fc7 Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26496 diff changeset	230 If you still need to use current Python versions on these systems,
76f79bb36fc7 Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26496 diff changeset	231 please send a message to python-dev@python.org indicating that you
39156 a4c4b7ea79c0 Update list of unsupported systems. Fixes #1510853. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 39048 diff changeset	232 volunteer to support this system. For a more detailed discussion
a4c4b7ea79c0 Update list of unsupported systems. Fixes #1510853. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 39048 diff changeset	233 regarding no-longer-supported and resupporting platforms, as well
a4c4b7ea79c0 Update list of unsupported systems. Fixes #1510853. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 39048 diff changeset	234 as a list of platforms that became or will be unsupported, see PEP 11.
26499 76f79bb36fc7 Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26496 diff changeset	235
76f79bb36fc7 Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26496 diff changeset	236 More specifically, the following systems are not supported any
76f79bb36fc7 Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26496 diff changeset	237 longer:
76f79bb36fc7 Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26496 diff changeset	238 - SunOS 4
76f79bb36fc7 Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26496 diff changeset	239 - DYNIX
76f79bb36fc7 Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26496 diff changeset	240 - dgux
76f79bb36fc7 Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26496 diff changeset	241 - Minix
39156 a4c4b7ea79c0 Update list of unsupported systems. Fixes #1510853. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 39048 diff changeset	242 - NeXT
26499 76f79bb36fc7 Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26496 diff changeset	243 - Irix 4 and --with-sgi-dl
76f79bb36fc7 Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26496 diff changeset	244 - Linux 1
76f79bb36fc7 Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26496 diff changeset	245 - Systems defining __d6_pthread_create (configure.in)
76f79bb36fc7 Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26496 diff changeset	246 - Systems defining PY_PTHREAD_D4, PY_PTHREAD_D6,
76f79bb36fc7 Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26496 diff changeset	247 or PY_PTHREAD_D7 in thread_pthread.h
76f79bb36fc7 Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26496 diff changeset	248 - Systems using --with-dl-dld
26716 a3600c4ecc8b Unsupport --without-universal-newlines. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26499 diff changeset	249 - Systems using --without-universal-newlines
39156 a4c4b7ea79c0 Update list of unsupported systems. Fixes #1510853. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 39048 diff changeset	250 - MacOS 9
a4c4b7ea79c0 Update list of unsupported systems. Fixes #1510853. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 39048 diff changeset	251 - Systems using --with-wctype-functions
a4c4b7ea79c0 Update list of unsupported systems. Fixes #1510853. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 39048 diff changeset	252 - Win9x, WinME
a4c4b7ea79c0 Update list of unsupported systems. Fixes #1510853. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 39048 diff changeset	253
26499 76f79bb36fc7 Add compile-time errors for unsupported systems. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26496 diff changeset	254
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	255 Platform specific notes
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	256 -----------------------
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	257
3174 f7789945b8de release 1.3 for real Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3110 diff changeset	258 (Some of these may no longer apply. If you find you can build Python
15986 bd5aee6b8390 Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 15546 diff changeset	259 on these platforms without the special directions mentioned here,
bd5aee6b8390 Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 15546 diff changeset	260 submit a documentation bug report to SourceForge (see Bug Reports
bd5aee6b8390 Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 15546 diff changeset	261 above) so we can remove them!)
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	262
28924 b3b284436c24 add note about building with bsddb185 and making it appear as bsddb. Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 28850 diff changeset	263 Unix platforms: If your vendor still ships (and you still use) Berkeley DB
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	264 1.85 you will need to edit Modules/Setup to build the bsddb185
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	265 module and add a line to sitecustomize.py which makes it the
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	266 default. In Modules/Setup a line like
28924 b3b284436c24 add note about building with bsddb185 and making it appear as bsddb. Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 28850 diff changeset	267
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	268 bsddb185 bsddbmodule.c
28924 b3b284436c24 add note about building with bsddb185 and making it appear as bsddb. Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 28850 diff changeset	269
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	270 should work. (You may need to add -I, -L or -l flags to direct the
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	271 compiler and linker to your include files and libraries.)
28924 b3b284436c24 add note about building with bsddb185 and making it appear as bsddb. Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 28850 diff changeset	272
34629 080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	273 XXX I think this next bit is out of date:
28924 b3b284436c24 add note about building with bsddb185 and making it appear as bsddb. Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 28850 diff changeset	274
41784 b7fb942b403e Remove the rgbimg module. It has been deprecated since Python 2.5. Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com> parents: 41034 diff changeset	275 64-bit platforms: The modules audioop, and imageop don't work.
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	276 The setup.py script disables them on 64-bit installations.
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	277 Don't try to enable them in the Modules/Setup file. They
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	278 contain code that is quite wordsize sensitive. (If you have a
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	279 fix, let us know!)
6448 b854ca4605e1 Ready for the release, I'd say. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6132 diff changeset	280
5037 9ad7b8c36c79 Various notes added: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4501 diff changeset	281 Solaris: When using Sun's C compiler with threads, at least on Solaris
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	282 2.5.1, you need to add the "-mt" compiler option (the simplest
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	283 way is probably to specify the compiler with this option as
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	284 the "CC" environment variable when running the configure
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	285 script).
5037 9ad7b8c36c79 Various notes added: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4501 diff changeset	286
25351 033adcbb4cb2 Warn about binutils 2.13 on Solaris. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 24547 diff changeset	287 When using GCC on Solaris, beware of binutils 2.13 or GCC
033adcbb4cb2 Warn about binutils 2.13 on Solaris. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 24547 diff changeset	288 versions built using it. This mistakenly enables the
033adcbb4cb2 Warn about binutils 2.13 on Solaris. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 24547 diff changeset	289 -zcombreloc option which creates broken shared libraries on
033adcbb4cb2 Warn about binutils 2.13 on Solaris. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 24547 diff changeset	290 Solaris. binutils 2.12 works, and the binutils maintainers
27053 9d08291cd411 qualify known Solaris versions related to the binutils breakage. Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 27051 diff changeset	291 are aware of the problem. Binutils 2.13.1 only partially
9d08291cd411 qualify known Solaris versions related to the binutils breakage. Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 27051 diff changeset	292 fixed things. It appears that 2.13.2 solves the problem
9d08291cd411 qualify known Solaris versions related to the binutils breakage. Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 27051 diff changeset	293 completely. This problem is known to occur with Solaris 2.7
9d08291cd411 qualify known Solaris versions related to the binutils breakage. Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 27051 diff changeset	294 and 2.8, but may also affect earlier and later versions of the
9d08291cd411 qualify known Solaris versions related to the binutils breakage. Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 27051 diff changeset	295 OS.
25351 033adcbb4cb2 Warn about binutils 2.13 on Solaris. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 24547 diff changeset	296
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	297 When the dynamic loader complains about errors finding shared
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	298 libraries, such as
26240 e42997acc7f1 Explain what to do in case of missing shared libraries. Remove mentioning Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26154 diff changeset	299
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	300 ld.so.1: ./python: fatal: libstdc++.so.5: open failed:
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	301 No such file or directory
26240 e42997acc7f1 Explain what to do in case of missing shared libraries. Remove mentioning Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26154 diff changeset	302
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	303 you need to first make sure that the library is available on
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	304 your system. Then, you need to instruct the dynamic loader how
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	305 to find it. You can choose any of the following strategies:
26240 e42997acc7f1 Explain what to do in case of missing shared libraries. Remove mentioning Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26154 diff changeset	306
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	307 1. When compiling Python, set LD_RUN_PATH to the directories
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	308 containing missing libraries.
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	309 2. When running Python, set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to these directories.
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	310 3. Use crle(8) to extend the search path of the loader.
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	311 4. Modify the installed GCC specs file, adding -R options into the
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	312 *link: section.
26240 e42997acc7f1 Explain what to do in case of missing shared libraries. Remove mentioning Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 26154 diff changeset	313
35885 5b82120cb49d note build workaround for Sol10/gcc 3.4 Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 35615 diff changeset	314 The complex object fails to compile on Solaris 10 with gcc 3.4 (at
5b82120cb49d note build workaround for Sol10/gcc 3.4 Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 35615 diff changeset	315 least up to 3.4.3). To work around it, define Py_HUGE_VAL as
5b82120cb49d note build workaround for Sol10/gcc 3.4 Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 35615 diff changeset	316 HUGE_VAL(), e.g.:
5b82120cb49d note build workaround for Sol10/gcc 3.4 Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 35615 diff changeset	317
5b82120cb49d note build workaround for Sol10/gcc 3.4 Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 35615 diff changeset	318 make CPPFLAGS='-D"Py_HUGE_VAL=HUGE_VAL()" -I. -I$(srcdir)/Include'
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	319 ./python setup.py CPPFLAGS='-D"Py_HUGE_VAL=HUGE_VAL()"'
35885 5b82120cb49d note build workaround for Sol10/gcc 3.4 Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 35615 diff changeset	320
14249 4e3640a06857 Various tweaks and improvements by Thomas Wouters (who apparently lost Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14144 diff changeset	321 Linux: A problem with threads and fork() was tracked down to a bug in
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	322 the pthreads code in glibc version 2.0.5; glibc version 2.0.7
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	323 solves the problem. This causes the popen2 test to fail;
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	324 problem and solution reported by Pablo Bleyer.
6773 14d6b7a42919 For RedHat Linux 5.0, added notes about needing to remove the LinuxThreads Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 6710 diff changeset	325
29453 efad59f39564 Patch #753845: Update README for Redhat 9 Tkinter compile with USC-4. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 29426 diff changeset	326 Red Hat Linux: Red Hat 9 built Python2.2 in UCS-4 mode and hacked
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	327 Tcl to support it. To compile Python2.3 with Tkinter, you will
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	328 need to pass --enable-unicode=ucs4 flag to ./configure.
29453 efad59f39564 Patch #753845: Update README for Redhat 9 Tkinter compile with USC-4. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 29426 diff changeset	329
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	330 There's an executable /usr/bin/python which is Python
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	331 1.5.2 on most older Red Hat installations; several key Red Hat tools
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	332 require this version. Python 2.1.x may be installed as
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	333 /usr/bin/python2. The Makefile installs Python as
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	334 /usr/local/bin/python, which may or may not take precedence
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	335 over /usr/bin/python, depending on how you have set up $PATH.
21865 53fecc8dd4c9 Quick build: clarify that you have to do "make install" as root; OS Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21632 diff changeset	336
11024 271af297aa3e Add warning FreeBSD users of a problem with curses and termcap, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 10862 diff changeset	337 FreeBSD 3.x and probably platforms with NCurses that use libmytinfo or
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	338 similar: When using cursesmodule, the linking is not done in
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	339 the correct order with the defaults. Remove "-ltermcap" from
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	340 the readline entry in Setup, and use as curses entry: "curses
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	341 cursesmodule.c -lmytinfo -lncurses -ltermcap" - "mytinfo" (so
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	342 called on FreeBSD) should be the name of the auxiliary library
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	343 required on your platform. Normally, it would be linked
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	344 automatically, but not necessarily in the correct order.
11024 271af297aa3e Add warning FreeBSD users of a problem with curses and termcap, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 10862 diff changeset	345
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	346 BSDI: BSDI versions before 4.1 have known problems with threads,
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	347 which can cause strange errors in a number of modules (for
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	348 instance, the 'test_signal' test script will hang forever.)
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	349 Turning off threads (with --with-threads=no) or upgrading to
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	350 BSDI 4.1 solves this problem.
14249 4e3640a06857 Various tweaks and improvements by Thomas Wouters (who apparently lost Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14144 diff changeset	351
4e3640a06857 Various tweaks and improvements by Thomas Wouters (who apparently lost Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14144 diff changeset	352 DEC Unix: Run configure with --with-dec-threads, or with
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	353 --with-threads=no if no threads are desired (threads are on by
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	354 default). When using GCC, it is possible to get an internal
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	355 compiler error if optimization is used. This was reported for
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	356 GCC 2.7.2.3 on selectmodule.c. Manually compile the affected
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	357 file without optimization to solve the problem.
3399 02435fd95277 Added ref to Misc/NEWS file; added hint to run regen script on Linux. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3233 diff changeset	358
10565 104a441b2bc8 Add DEC Ultrix notes (from Donn Cave's email). Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 10549 diff changeset	359 DEC Ultrix: compile with GCC to avoid bugs in the native compiler,
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	360 and pass SHELL=/bin/sh5 to Make when installing.
10565 104a441b2bc8 Add DEC Ultrix notes (from Donn Cave's email). Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 10549 diff changeset	361
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	362 AIX: A complete overhaul of the shared library support is now in
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	363 place. See Misc/AIX-NOTES for some notes on how it's done.
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	364 (The optimizer bug reported at this place in previous releases
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	365 has been worked around by a minimal code change.) If you get
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	366 errors about pthread_* functions, during compile or during
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	367 testing, try setting CC to a thread-safe (reentrant) compiler,
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	368 like "cc_r". For full C++ module support, set CC="xlC_r" (or
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	369 CC="xlC" without thread support).
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	370
35615 c6d7f1fe9d1e Update 64-bit AIX and HP-UX build instructions (forward port). Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 35548 diff changeset	371 AIX 5.3: To build a 64-bit version with IBM's compiler, I used the
c6d7f1fe9d1e Update 64-bit AIX and HP-UX build instructions (forward port). Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 35548 diff changeset	372 following:
c6d7f1fe9d1e Update 64-bit AIX and HP-UX build instructions (forward port). Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 35548 diff changeset	373
c6d7f1fe9d1e Update 64-bit AIX and HP-UX build instructions (forward port). Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 35548 diff changeset	374 export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/vacpp/bin
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	375 ./configure --with-gcc="xlc_r -q64" --with-cxx="xlC_r -q64" \
35615 c6d7f1fe9d1e Update 64-bit AIX and HP-UX build instructions (forward port). Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 35548 diff changeset	376 --disable-ipv6 AR="ar -X64"
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	377 make
35615 c6d7f1fe9d1e Update 64-bit AIX and HP-UX build instructions (forward port). Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 35548 diff changeset	378
30618 b7d01effe899 updated HPUX notes. Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 30521 diff changeset	379 HP-UX: When using threading, you may have to add -D_REENTRANT to the
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	380 OPT variable in the top-level Makefile; reported by Pat Knight,
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	381 this seems to make a difference (at least for HP-UX 10.20)
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	382 even though pyconfig.h defines it. This seems unnecessary when
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	383 using HP/UX 11 and later - threading seems to work "out of the
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	384 box".
30618 b7d01effe899 updated HPUX notes. Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 30521 diff changeset	385
34629 080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	386 HP-UX ia64: When building on the ia64 (Itanium) platform using HP's
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	387 compiler, some experience has shown that the compiler's
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	388 optimiser produces a completely broken version of python
55721 675a3c1824f4 #6775: fix python.org URLs in README. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 55091 diff changeset	389 (see http://bugs.python.org/814976). To work around this,
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	390 edit the Makefile and remove -O from the OPT line.
35548 d79af0651155 - Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 on Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 35097 diff changeset	391
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	392 To build a 64-bit executable on an Itanium 2 system using HP's
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	393 compiler, use these environment variables:
35548 d79af0651155 - Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 on Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 35097 diff changeset	394
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	395 CC=cc
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	396 CXX=aCC
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	397 BASECFLAGS="+DD64"
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	398 LDFLAGS="+DD64 -lxnet"
35548 d79af0651155 - Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 on Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 35097 diff changeset	399
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	400 and call configure as:
35548 d79af0651155 - Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 on Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 35097 diff changeset	401
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	402 ./configure --without-gcc
35548 d79af0651155 - Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 on Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 35097 diff changeset	403
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	404 then unset the environment variables again before running
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	405 make. (At least one of these flags causes the build to fail
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	406 if it remains set.) You still have to edit the Makefile and
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	407 remove -O from the OPT line.
8336 6b7095b98e54 Add pointer to Misc/HPUX-NOTES. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8316 diff changeset	408
55721 675a3c1824f4 #6775: fix python.org URLs in README. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 55091 diff changeset	409 HP PA-RISC 2.0: A recent bug report (http://bugs.python.org/546117)
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	410 suggests that the C compiler in this 64-bit system has bugs
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	411 in the optimizer that break Python. Compiling without
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	412 optimization solves the problems.
23240 76c45037113f Add warning about the HP PA-RISC 2.0 C compiler's optimizer. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 23029 diff changeset	413
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	414 SCO: The following apply to SCO 3 only; Python builds out of the box
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	415 on SCO 5 (or so we've heard).
8041 e2333969a2ca The usual edits... Updated some stuff about the mailing list. Ready Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 7978 diff changeset	416
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	417 1) Everything works much better if you add -U__STDC__ to the
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	418 defs. This is because all the SCO header files are broken.
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	419 Anything that isn't mentioned in the C standard is
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	420 conditionally excluded when __STDC__ is defined.
1453 d773a5f89426 New files Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: diff changeset	421
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	422 2) Due to the U.S. export restrictions, SCO broke the crypt
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	423 stuff out into a separate library, libcrypt_i.a so the LIBS
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	424 needed be set to:
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	425
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	426 LIBS=' -lsocket -lcrypt_i'
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	427
19758 64bcef1702ad Revert parts of patch #453627, documenting the resulting test failures Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 19381 diff changeset	428 UnixWare: There are known bugs in the math library of the system, as well as
64bcef1702ad Revert parts of patch #453627, documenting the resulting test failures Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 19381 diff changeset	429 problems in the handling of threads (calling fork in one
64bcef1702ad Revert parts of patch #453627, documenting the resulting test failures Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 19381 diff changeset	430 thread may interrupt system calls in others). Therefore, test_math and
64bcef1702ad Revert parts of patch #453627, documenting the resulting test failures Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 19381 diff changeset	431 tests involving threads will fail until those problems are fixed.
64bcef1702ad Revert parts of patch #453627, documenting the resulting test failures Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 19381 diff changeset	432
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	433 QNX: Chris Herborth (chrish@qnx.com) writes:
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	434 configure works best if you use GNU bash; a port is available on
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	435 ftp.qnx.com in /usr/free. I used the following process to build,
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	436 test and install Python 1.5.x under QNX:
6710 90c6390b4941 Add attributions to Jeffrey Ollie and Tim Peters for re.py; new QNX Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6680 diff changeset	437
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	438 1) CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash CC=cc RANLIB=: \
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	439 ./configure --verbose --without-gcc --with-libm=""
6710 90c6390b4941 Add attributions to Jeffrey Ollie and Tim Peters for re.py; new QNX Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6680 diff changeset	440
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	441 2) edit Modules/Setup to activate everything that makes sense for
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	442 your system... tested here at QNX with the following modules:
6710 90c6390b4941 Add attributions to Jeffrey Ollie and Tim Peters for re.py; new QNX Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6680 diff changeset	443
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	444 array, audioop, binascii, cPickle, cStringIO, cmath,
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	445 crypt, curses, errno, fcntl, gdbm, grp, imageop,
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	446 _locale, math, md5, new, operator, parser, pcre,
41790 c028b2775a9a rotor is long gone. Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com> parents: 41784 diff changeset	447 posix, pwd, readline, regex, reop,
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	448 select, signal, socket, soundex, strop, struct,
41784 b7fb942b403e Remove the rgbimg module. It has been deprecated since Python 2.5. Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com> parents: 41034 diff changeset	449 syslog, termios, time, timing, zlib, audioop, imageop
6710 90c6390b4941 Add attributions to Jeffrey Ollie and Tim Peters for re.py; new QNX Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6680 diff changeset	450
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	451 3) make SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
17542 4493199d2b95 This is (hopefully) last checkin before releasing 2.1c2 -- get rid of Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 17512 diff changeset	452
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	453 or, if you feel the need for speed:
17542 4493199d2b95 This is (hopefully) last checkin before releasing 2.1c2 -- get rid of Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 17512 diff changeset	454
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	455 make SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash OPT="-5 -Oil+nrt"
8818 71fcc4ca0e8a Changes for BeOS, QNX and long long, by Chris Herborth. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8603 diff changeset	456
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	457 4) make SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash test
6710 90c6390b4941 Add attributions to Jeffrey Ollie and Tim Peters for re.py; new QNX Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6680 diff changeset	458
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	459 Using GNU readline 2.2 seems to behave strangely, but I
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	460 think that's a problem with my readline 2.2 port. :-\
8818 71fcc4ca0e8a Changes for BeOS, QNX and long long, by Chris Herborth. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8603 diff changeset	461
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	462 5) make SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash install
6710 90c6390b4941 Add attributions to Jeffrey Ollie and Tim Peters for re.py; new QNX Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6680 diff changeset	463
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	464 If you get SIGSEGVs while running Python (I haven't yet, but
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	465 I've only run small programs and the test cases), you're
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	466 probably running out of stack; the default 32k could be a
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	467 little tight. To increase the stack size, edit the Makefile
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	468 to read: LDFLAGS = -N 48k
6018 f05546743406 Added QNX remarks. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 5951 diff changeset	469
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	470 BeOS: See Misc/BeOS-NOTES for notes about compiling/installing
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	471 Python on BeOS R3 or later. Note that only the PowerPC
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	472 platform is supported for R3; both PowerPC and x86 are
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	473 supported for R4.
8818 71fcc4ca0e8a Changes for BeOS, QNX and long long, by Chris Herborth. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8603 diff changeset	474
24445 c3d9e01c6124 Patch: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 24164 diff changeset	475 Cray T3E: Mark Hadfield (m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz) writes:
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	476 Python can be built satisfactorily on a Cray T3E but based on
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	477 my experience with the NIWA T3E (2002-05-22, version 2.2.1)
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	478 there are a few bugs and gotchas. For more information see a
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	479 thread on comp.lang.python in May 2002 entitled "Building
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	480 Python on Cray T3E".
24445 c3d9e01c6124 Patch: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 24164 diff changeset	481
c3d9e01c6124 Patch: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 24164 diff changeset	482 1) Use Cray's cc and not gcc. The latter was reported not to
c3d9e01c6124 Patch: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 24164 diff changeset	483 work by Konrad Hinsen. It may work now, but it may not.
c3d9e01c6124 Patch: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 24164 diff changeset	484
c3d9e01c6124 Patch: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 24164 diff changeset	485 2) To set sys.platform to something sensible, pass the
c3d9e01c6124 Patch: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 24164 diff changeset	486 following environment variable to the configure script:
c3d9e01c6124 Patch: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 24164 diff changeset	487
c3d9e01c6124 Patch: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 24164 diff changeset	488 MACHDEP=unicosmk
c3d9e01c6124 Patch: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 24164 diff changeset	489
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	490 2) Run configure with option "--enable-unicode=ucs4".
24445 c3d9e01c6124 Patch: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 24164 diff changeset	491
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	492 3) The Cray T3E does not support dynamic linking, so extension
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	493 modules have to be built by adding (or uncommenting) lines
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	494 in Modules/Setup. The minimum set of modules is
24445 c3d9e01c6124 Patch: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 24164 diff changeset	495
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	496 posix, new, _sre, unicodedata
24445 c3d9e01c6124 Patch: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 24164 diff changeset	497
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	498 On NIWA's vanilla T3E system the following have also been
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	499 included successfully:
24445 c3d9e01c6124 Patch: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 24164 diff changeset	500
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	501 _codecs, _locale, _socket, _symtable, _testcapi, _weakref
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	502 array, binascii, cmath, cPickle, crypt, cStringIO, dbm
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	503 errno, fcntl, grp, math, md5, operator, parser, pcre, pwd
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	504 regex, rotor, select, struct, strop, syslog, termios
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	505 time, timing, xreadlines
24445 c3d9e01c6124 Patch: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 24164 diff changeset	506
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	507 4) Once the python executable and library have been built, make
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	508 will execute setup.py, which will attempt to build remaining
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	509 extensions and link them dynamically. Each of these attempts
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	510 will fail but should not halt the make process. This is
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	511 normal.
24445 c3d9e01c6124 Patch: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 24164 diff changeset	512
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	513 5) Running "make test" uses a lot of resources and causes
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	514 problems on our system. You might want to try running tests
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	515 singly or in small groups.
6122 db8ac6e109b4 Got rid of HP-UX comments (which seem to be out of date -- one should Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6077 diff changeset	516
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	517 SGI: SGI's standard "make" utility (/bin/make or /usr/bin/make)
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	518 does not check whether a command actually changed the file it
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	519 is supposed to build. This means that whenever you say "make"
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	520 it will redo the link step. The remedy is to use SGI's much
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	521 smarter "smake" utility (/usr/sbin/smake), or GNU make. If
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	522 you set the first line of the Makefile to #!/usr/sbin/smake
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	523 smake will be invoked by make (likewise for GNU make).
6132 94605b0026e7 Add warning about dumb SGI make. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6122 diff changeset	524
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	525 WARNING: There are bugs in the optimizer of some versions of
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	526 SGI's compilers that can cause bus errors or other strange
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	527 behavior, especially on numerical operations. To avoid this,
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	528 try building with "make OPT=".
14927 c8f22f15499f Add a paragraph about an optimization bug in SGI compilers which affects Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 14920 diff changeset	529
6675 cdb3279b06e7 Revamped README for release of 1.5b1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6494 diff changeset	530 OS/2: If you are running Warp3 or Warp4 and have IBM's VisualAge C/C++
cdb3279b06e7 Revamped README for release of 1.5b1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6494 diff changeset	531 compiler installed, just change into the pc\os2vacpp directory
cdb3279b06e7 Revamped README for release of 1.5b1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6494 diff changeset	532 and type NMAKE. Threading and sockets are supported by default
cdb3279b06e7 Revamped README for release of 1.5b1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6494 diff changeset	533 in the resulting binaries of PYTHON15.DLL and PYTHON.EXE.
cdb3279b06e7 Revamped README for release of 1.5b1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6494 diff changeset	534
15043 c0c254fbde57 Added section on threads problems on Reliant UNIX; this relates to Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 14927 diff changeset	535 Reliant UNIX: The thread support does not compile on Reliant UNIX, and
c0c254fbde57 Added section on threads problems on Reliant UNIX; this relates to Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 14927 diff changeset	536 there is a (minor) problem in the configure script for that
c0c254fbde57 Added section on threads problems on Reliant UNIX; this relates to Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 14927 diff changeset	537 platform as well. This should be resolved in time for a
c0c254fbde57 Added section on threads problems on Reliant UNIX; this relates to Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 14927 diff changeset	538 future release.
14144 31cda87e9ff4 This patch partly (some stuff went in already) ports Python to Monterey. Trent Mick <trentm@activestate.com> parents: 14137 diff changeset	539
25781 cc41b9cacae8 There was a typo in the MacOSX section regarding the stacksize issue. Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> parents: 25351 diff changeset	540 MacOSX: The tests will crash on both 10.1 and 10.2 with SEGV in
25783 2ef71f351c74 I'd forgotten that tcsh was the default for 10.1, but SF's 10.1 system Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> parents: 25781 diff changeset	541 test_re and test_sre due to the small default stack size. If
2ef71f351c74 I'd forgotten that tcsh was the default for 10.1, but SF's 10.1 system Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> parents: 25781 diff changeset	542 you set the stack size to 2048 before doing a "make test" the
41034 6cd366e6beec Patch #1673121: update README wrt. OSX default shell. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 40561 diff changeset	543 failure can be avoided. If you're using the tcsh or csh shells,
6cd366e6beec Patch #1673121: update README wrt. OSX default shell. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 40561 diff changeset	544 use "limit stacksize 2048" and for the bash shell (the default
6cd366e6beec Patch #1673121: update README wrt. OSX default shell. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 40561 diff changeset	545 as of OSX 10.3), use "ulimit -s 2048".
21414 f536f85295b8 Merge last minute 2.2c1 changes from branch to trunk. Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> parents: 21367 diff changeset	546
21273 ecbbeccde07d Cleaned up Mac OS X section to the current state of affairs. Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> parents: 20959 diff changeset	547 On naked Darwin you may want to add the configure option
20314 284eabe3b552 Mac OS X build instructions talked about --without-toolbox-glue, but Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> parents: 20270 diff changeset	548 "--disable-toolbox-glue" to disable the glue code for the Carbon
21273 ecbbeccde07d Cleaned up Mac OS X section to the current state of affairs. Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> parents: 20959 diff changeset	549 interface modules. The modules themselves are currently only built
ecbbeccde07d Cleaned up Mac OS X section to the current state of affairs. Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> parents: 20959 diff changeset	550 if you add the --enable-framework option, see below.
21414 f536f85295b8 Merge last minute 2.2c1 changes from branch to trunk. Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> parents: 21367 diff changeset	551
f536f85295b8 Merge last minute 2.2c1 changes from branch to trunk. Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> parents: 21367 diff changeset	552 On a clean OSX /usr/local does not exist. Do a
21632 5861885577e9 Rephrased the OSX stack limit problem, after a complaint about it. Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> parents: 21495 diff changeset	553 "sudo mkdir -m 775 /usr/local"
24547 4f00134b561d Changes to the OSX section: Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> parents: 24525 diff changeset	554 before you do a make install. It is probably not a good idea to
4f00134b561d Changes to the OSX section: Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> parents: 24525 diff changeset	555 do "sudo make install" which installs everything as superuser,
4f00134b561d Changes to the OSX section: Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> parents: 24525 diff changeset	556 as this may later cause problems when installing distutils-based
4f00134b561d Changes to the OSX section: Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> parents: 24525 diff changeset	557 additions.
34629 080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	558
24547 4f00134b561d Changes to the OSX section: Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> parents: 24525 diff changeset	559 Some people have reported problems building Python after using "fink"
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	560 to install additional unix software. Disabling fink (remove all
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	561 references to /sw from your .profile or .login) should solve this.
21414 f536f85295b8 Merge last minute 2.2c1 changes from branch to trunk. Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> parents: 21367 diff changeset	562
f536f85295b8 Merge last minute 2.2c1 changes from branch to trunk. Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> parents: 21367 diff changeset	563 You may want to try the configure option "--enable-framework"
f536f85295b8 Merge last minute 2.2c1 changes from branch to trunk. Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> parents: 21367 diff changeset	564 which installs Python as a framework. The location can be set
f536f85295b8 Merge last minute 2.2c1 changes from branch to trunk. Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> parents: 21367 diff changeset	565 as argument to the --enable-framework option (default
24547 4f00134b561d Changes to the OSX section: Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> parents: 24525 diff changeset	566 /Library/Frameworks). A framework install is probably needed if you
4f00134b561d Changes to the OSX section: Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> parents: 24525 diff changeset	567 want to use any Aqua-based GUI toolkit (whether Tkinter, wxPython,
4f00134b561d Changes to the OSX section: Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> parents: 24525 diff changeset	568 Carbon, Cocoa or anything else).
34629 080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	569
44242 66dbe12ddf31 Remove all tabs in that file. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 44241 diff changeset	570 You may also want to try the configure option "--enable-universalsdk"
66dbe12ddf31 Remove all tabs in that file. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 44241 diff changeset	571 which builds Python as a universal binary with support for the
66dbe12ddf31 Remove all tabs in that file. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 44241 diff changeset	572 i386 and PPC architetures. This requires Xcode 2.1 or later to build.
38040 36c7a4422e30 Patch 1471883: --enable-universalsdk on Mac OS X Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com> parents: 37709 diff changeset	573
44241 5ac874d09556 #1575: the Mac readme is now one level up. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 41934 diff changeset	574 See Mac/README for more information on framework and
44242 66dbe12ddf31 Remove all tabs in that file. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 44241 diff changeset	575 universal builds.
16390 d34f25046ad4 Added note about need for -traditional-cpp on the MacOS X Public Beta. Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 16288 diff changeset	576
21491 ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	577 Cygwin: With recent (relative to the time of writing, 2001-12-19)
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	578 Cygwin installations, there are problems with the interaction
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	579 of dynamic linking and fork(). This manifests itself in build
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	580 failures during the execution of setup.py.
17542 4493199d2b95 This is (hopefully) last checkin before releasing 2.1c2 -- get rid of Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 17512 diff changeset	581
21491 ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	582 There are two workarounds that both enable Python (albeit
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	583 without threading support) to build and pass all tests on
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	584 NT/2000 (and most likely XP as well, though reports of testing
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	585 on XP would be appreciated).
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	586
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	587 The workarounds:
17311 b0a7faf98a8e SF patch [ #413750 ] Cygwin entry for README file, from Jason Tishler. Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> parents: 17210 diff changeset	588
21491 ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	589 (a) the band-aid fix is to link the _socket module statically
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	590 rather than dynamically (which is the default).
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	591
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	592 To do this, run "./configure --with-threads=no" including any
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	593 other options you need (--prefix, etc.). Then in Modules/Setup
27619 558d0f3b6254 Fix typos. Walter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de> parents: 27253 diff changeset	594 uncomment the lines:
17542 4493199d2b95 This is (hopefully) last checkin before releasing 2.1c2 -- get rid of Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 17512 diff changeset	595
21367 8a89ff1e0662 This is what Jason Tishler and I believe to be the state of play on Cygwin Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21273 diff changeset	596 #SSL=/usr/local/ssl
8a89ff1e0662 This is what Jason Tishler and I believe to be the state of play on Cygwin Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21273 diff changeset	597 #_socket socketmodule.c \
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	598 # -DUSE_SSL -I$(SSL)/include -I$(SSL)/include/openssl \
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	599 # -L$(SSL)/lib -lssl -lcrypto
17311 b0a7faf98a8e SF patch [ #413750 ] Cygwin entry for README file, from Jason Tishler. Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> parents: 17210 diff changeset	600
21491 ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	601 and remove "local/" from the SSL variable. Finally, just run
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	602 "make"!
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	603
21495 2474414d4342 Apparently it's Cygwin with a capital C. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21493 diff changeset	604 (b) The "proper" fix is to rebase the Cygwin DLLs to prevent
21491 ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	605 base address conflicts. Details on how to do this can be
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	606 found in the following mail:
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	607
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	608 http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg00894.html
17542 4493199d2b95 This is (hopefully) last checkin before releasing 2.1c2 -- get rid of Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 17512 diff changeset	609
21491 ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	610 It is hoped that a version of this solution will be
21495 2474414d4342 Apparently it's Cygwin with a capital C. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21493 diff changeset	611 incorporated into the Cygwin distribution fairly soon.
21491 ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	612
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	613 Two additional problems:
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	614
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	615 (1) Threading support should still be disabled due to a known
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	616 bug in Cygwin pthreads that causes test_threadedtempfile to
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	617 hang.
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	618
21493 162106b16e44 Fix a typo Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com> parents: 21491 diff changeset	619 (2) The _curses module does not build. This is a known
21491 ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	620 Cygwin ncurses problem that should be resolved the next time
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	621 that this package is released.
17311 b0a7faf98a8e SF patch [ #413750 ] Cygwin entry for README file, from Jason Tishler. Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> parents: 17210 diff changeset	622
21367 8a89ff1e0662 This is what Jason Tishler and I believe to be the state of play on Cygwin Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21273 diff changeset	623 On older versions of Cygwin, test_poll may hang and test_strftime
8a89ff1e0662 This is what Jason Tishler and I believe to be the state of play on Cygwin Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21273 diff changeset	624 may fail.
17542 4493199d2b95 This is (hopefully) last checkin before releasing 2.1c2 -- get rid of Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 17512 diff changeset	625
21491 ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	626 The situation on 9X/Me is not accurately known at present.
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	627 Some time ago, there were reports that the following
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	628 regression tests failed:
17311 b0a7faf98a8e SF patch [ #413750 ] Cygwin entry for README file, from Jason Tishler. Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> parents: 17210 diff changeset	629
b0a7faf98a8e SF patch [ #413750 ] Cygwin entry for README file, from Jason Tishler. Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> parents: 17210 diff changeset	630 test_pwd
b0a7faf98a8e SF patch [ #413750 ] Cygwin entry for README file, from Jason Tishler. Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> parents: 17210 diff changeset	631 test_select (hang)
b0a7faf98a8e SF patch [ #413750 ] Cygwin entry for README file, from Jason Tishler. Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> parents: 17210 diff changeset	632 test_socket
b0a7faf98a8e SF patch [ #413750 ] Cygwin entry for README file, from Jason Tishler. Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> parents: 17210 diff changeset	633
21491 ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	634 Due to the test_select hang on 9X/Me, one should run the
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	635 regression test using the following:
17311 b0a7faf98a8e SF patch [ #413750 ] Cygwin entry for README file, from Jason Tishler. Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> parents: 17210 diff changeset	636
21367 8a89ff1e0662 This is what Jason Tishler and I believe to be the state of play on Cygwin Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21273 diff changeset	637 make TESTOPTS='-l -x test_select' test
17311 b0a7faf98a8e SF patch [ #413750 ] Cygwin entry for README file, from Jason Tishler. Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> parents: 17210 diff changeset	638
21491 ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	639 News regarding these platforms with more recent Cygwin
ca450e4dff9a More cygwin news. This section is getting a bit long. Oh well. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 21414 diff changeset	640 versions would be appreciated!
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	641
52598 fa9243bf5256 #1675026: add a note about a strange Windows problem, and remove notes about AtheOS. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 52597 diff changeset	642 Windows: When executing Python scripts on the command line using file type
fa9243bf5256 #1675026: add a note about a strange Windows problem, and remove notes about AtheOS. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 52597 diff changeset	643 associations (i.e. starting "script.py" instead of "python script.py"),
fa9243bf5256 #1675026: add a note about a strange Windows problem, and remove notes about AtheOS. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 52597 diff changeset	644 redirects may not work unless you set a specific registry key. See
fa9243bf5256 #1675026: add a note about a strange Windows problem, and remove notes about AtheOS. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 52597 diff changeset	645 the Knowledge Base article <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321788>.
27077 c1f4e53c42dd Merged Misc/AtheOS-NOTES into the platform-specific section. Rewrote the Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 27053 diff changeset	646
c1f4e53c42dd Merged Misc/AtheOS-NOTES into the platform-specific section. Rewrote the Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 27053 diff changeset	647
23867 45d676933882 This introduces stricter library/header file checking for the Berkeley DB Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 23415 diff changeset	648 Configuring the bsddb and dbm modules
45d676933882 This introduces stricter library/header file checking for the Berkeley DB Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 23415 diff changeset	649 -------------------------------------
45d676933882 This introduces stricter library/header file checking for the Berkeley DB Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 23415 diff changeset	650
27077 c1f4e53c42dd Merged Misc/AtheOS-NOTES into the platform-specific section. Rewrote the Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 27053 diff changeset	651 Beginning with Python version 2.3, the PyBsddb package
c1f4e53c42dd Merged Misc/AtheOS-NOTES into the platform-specific section. Rewrote the Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 27053 diff changeset	652 <http://pybsddb.sf.net/> was adopted into Python as the bsddb package,
c1f4e53c42dd Merged Misc/AtheOS-NOTES into the platform-specific section. Rewrote the Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 27053 diff changeset	653 exposing a set of package-level functions which provide
37691 eac83feeb11f raise the minimum supported BerkeleyDB version to 3.3 and add notes to Gregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com> parents: 37605 diff changeset	654 backwards-compatible behavior. Only versions 3.3 through 4.4 of
27077 c1f4e53c42dd Merged Misc/AtheOS-NOTES into the platform-specific section. Rewrote the Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 27053 diff changeset	655 Sleepycat's libraries provide the necessary API, so older versions
c1f4e53c42dd Merged Misc/AtheOS-NOTES into the platform-specific section. Rewrote the Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 27053 diff changeset	656 aren't supported through this interface. The old bsddb module has
c1f4e53c42dd Merged Misc/AtheOS-NOTES into the platform-specific section. Rewrote the Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 27053 diff changeset	657 been retained as bsddb185, though it is not built by default. Users
c1f4e53c42dd Merged Misc/AtheOS-NOTES into the platform-specific section. Rewrote the Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 27053 diff changeset	658 wishing to use it will have to tweak Modules/Setup to build it. The
c1f4e53c42dd Merged Misc/AtheOS-NOTES into the platform-specific section. Rewrote the Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 27053 diff changeset	659 dbm module will still be built against the Sleepycat libraries if
37691 eac83feeb11f raise the minimum supported BerkeleyDB version to 3.3 and add notes to Gregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com> parents: 37605 diff changeset	660 other preferred alternatives (ndbm, gdbm) are not found.
23867 45d676933882 This introduces stricter library/header file checking for the Berkeley DB Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 23415 diff changeset	661
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	662 Building the sqlite3 module
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	663 ---------------------------
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	664
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	665 To build the sqlite3 module, you'll need the sqlite3 or libsqlite3
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	666 packages installed, including the header files. Many modern operating
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	667 systems distribute the headers in a separate package to the library -
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	668 often it will be the same name as the main package, but with a -dev or
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	669 -devel suffix.
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	670
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	671 The version of pysqlite2 that's including in Python needs sqlite3 3.0.8
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	672 or later. setup.py attempts to check that it can find a correct version.
23867 45d676933882 This introduces stricter library/header file checking for the Berkeley DB Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 23415 diff changeset	673
8316 63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	674 Configuring threads
63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	675 -------------------
63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	676
14249 4e3640a06857 Various tweaks and improvements by Thomas Wouters (who apparently lost Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14144 diff changeset	677 As of Python 2.0, threads are enabled by default. If you wish to
4e3640a06857 Various tweaks and improvements by Thomas Wouters (who apparently lost Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14144 diff changeset	678 compile without threads, or if your thread support is broken, pass the
4e3640a06857 Various tweaks and improvements by Thomas Wouters (who apparently lost Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14144 diff changeset	679 --with-threads=no switch to configure. Unfortunately, on some
4e3640a06857 Various tweaks and improvements by Thomas Wouters (who apparently lost Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14144 diff changeset	680 platforms, additional compiler and/or linker options are required for
4e3640a06857 Various tweaks and improvements by Thomas Wouters (who apparently lost Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14144 diff changeset	681 threads to work properly. Below is a table of those options,
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	682 collected by Bill Janssen. We would love to automate this process
14249 4e3640a06857 Various tweaks and improvements by Thomas Wouters (who apparently lost Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14144 diff changeset	683 more, but the information below is not enough to write a patch for the
4e3640a06857 Various tweaks and improvements by Thomas Wouters (who apparently lost Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14144 diff changeset	684 configure.in file, so manual intervention is required. If you patch
4e3640a06857 Various tweaks and improvements by Thomas Wouters (who apparently lost Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14144 diff changeset	685 the configure.in file and are confident that the patch works, please
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	686 send in the patch. (Don't bother patching the configure script itself
27619 558d0f3b6254 Fix typos. Walter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de> parents: 27253 diff changeset	687 -- it is regenerated each time the configure.in file changes.)
8316 63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	688
63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	689 Compiler switches for threads
63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	690 .............................
63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	691
16994 459c8ef0a010 Document that _REENTRANT is not needed explicitly. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 16776 diff changeset	692 The definition of _REENTRANT should be configured automatically, if
459c8ef0a010 Document that _REENTRANT is not needed explicitly. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 16776 diff changeset	693 that does not work on your system, or if _REENTRANT is defined
459c8ef0a010 Document that _REENTRANT is not needed explicitly. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 16776 diff changeset	694 incorrectly, please report that as a bug.
459c8ef0a010 Document that _REENTRANT is not needed explicitly. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 16776 diff changeset	695
8316 63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	696 OS/Compiler/threads Switches for use with threads
16994 459c8ef0a010 Document that _REENTRANT is not needed explicitly. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 16776 diff changeset	697 (POSIX is draft 10, DCE is draft 4) compile & link
8316 63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	698
16994 459c8ef0a010 Document that _REENTRANT is not needed explicitly. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 16776 diff changeset	699 SunOS 5.{1-5}/{gcc,SunPro cc}/solaris -mt
459c8ef0a010 Document that _REENTRANT is not needed explicitly. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 16776 diff changeset	700 SunOS 5.5/{gcc,SunPro cc}/POSIX (nothing)
17542 4493199d2b95 This is (hopefully) last checkin before releasing 2.1c2 -- get rid of Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 17512 diff changeset	701 DEC OSF/1 3.x/cc/DCE -threads
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	702 (butenhof@zko.dec.com)
17542 4493199d2b95 This is (hopefully) last checkin before releasing 2.1c2 -- get rid of Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 17512 diff changeset	703 Digital UNIX 4.x/cc/DCE -threads
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	704 (butenhof@zko.dec.com)
17542 4493199d2b95 This is (hopefully) last checkin before releasing 2.1c2 -- get rid of Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 17512 diff changeset	705 Digital UNIX 4.x/cc/POSIX -pthread
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	706 (butenhof@zko.dec.com)
17542 4493199d2b95 This is (hopefully) last checkin before releasing 2.1c2 -- get rid of Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 17512 diff changeset	707 AIX 4.1.4/cc_r/d7 (nothing)
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	708 (buhrt@iquest.net)
17542 4493199d2b95 This is (hopefully) last checkin before releasing 2.1c2 -- get rid of Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 17512 diff changeset	709 AIX 4.1.4/cc_r4/DCE (nothing)
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	710 (buhrt@iquest.net)
17542 4493199d2b95 This is (hopefully) last checkin before releasing 2.1c2 -- get rid of Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 17512 diff changeset	711 IRIX 6.2/cc/POSIX (nothing)
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	712 (robertl@cwi.nl)
8316 63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	713
63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	714
63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	715 Linker (ld) libraries and flags for threads
63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	716 ...........................................
63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	717
63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	718 OS/threads Libraries/switches for use with threads
63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	719
63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	720 SunOS 5.{1-5}/solaris -lthread
63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	721 SunOS 5.5/POSIX -lpthread
17542 4493199d2b95 This is (hopefully) last checkin before releasing 2.1c2 -- get rid of Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 17512 diff changeset	722 DEC OSF/1 3.x/DCE -lpthreads -lmach -lc_r -lc
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	723 (butenhof@zko.dec.com)
8316 63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	724 Digital UNIX 4.x/DCE -lpthreads -lpthread -lmach -lexc -lc
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	725 (butenhof@zko.dec.com)
17542 4493199d2b95 This is (hopefully) last checkin before releasing 2.1c2 -- get rid of Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 17512 diff changeset	726 Digital UNIX 4.x/POSIX -lpthread -lmach -lexc -lc
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	727 (butenhof@zko.dec.com)
17542 4493199d2b95 This is (hopefully) last checkin before releasing 2.1c2 -- get rid of Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 17512 diff changeset	728 AIX 4.1.4/{draft7,DCE} (nothing)
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	729 (buhrt@iquest.net)
17542 4493199d2b95 This is (hopefully) last checkin before releasing 2.1c2 -- get rid of Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 17512 diff changeset	730 IRIX 6.2/POSIX -lpthread
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	731 (jph@emilia.engr.sgi.com)
8316 63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	732
63cce9d77797 Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 8041 diff changeset	733
22662 1aea7af09260 Patch #527027: Allow building python as shared library. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 22436 diff changeset	734 Building a shared libpython
1aea7af09260 Patch #527027: Allow building python as shared library. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 22436 diff changeset	735 ---------------------------
1aea7af09260 Patch #527027: Allow building python as shared library. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 22436 diff changeset	736
1aea7af09260 Patch #527027: Allow building python as shared library. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 22436 diff changeset	737 Starting with Python 2.3, the majority of the interpreter can be built
34629 080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	738 into a shared library, which can then be used by the interpreter
22662 1aea7af09260 Patch #527027: Allow building python as shared library. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 22436 diff changeset	739 executable, and by applications embedding Python. To enable this feature,
34629 080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	740 configure with --enable-shared.
24525 3cb055aae739 Document that --enable-shared puts PIC objects into the static libpython. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 24445 diff changeset	741
29954 baf2241070bf Clarify a statement regarding both shared and static library. Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 29932 diff changeset	742 If you enable this feature, the same object files will be used to create
baf2241070bf Clarify a statement regarding both shared and static library. Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 29932 diff changeset	743 a static library. In particular, the static library will contain object
baf2241070bf Clarify a statement regarding both shared and static library. Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 29932 diff changeset	744 files using position-independent code (PIC) on platforms where PIC flags
baf2241070bf Clarify a statement regarding both shared and static library. Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 29932 diff changeset	745 are needed for the shared library.
22662 1aea7af09260 Patch #527027: Allow building python as shared library. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 22436 diff changeset	746
1aea7af09260 Patch #527027: Allow building python as shared library. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 22436 diff changeset	747
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	748 Configuring additional built-in modules
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	749 ---------------------------------------
2162 c9aea34ae4b6 add hint for NeXT users Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2131 diff changeset	750
16776 2915eb07bd25 Update build notes to mention setup.py Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> parents: 16775 diff changeset	751 Starting with Python 2.1, the setup.py script at the top of the source
2915eb07bd25 Update build notes to mention setup.py Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> parents: 16775 diff changeset	752 distribution attempts to detect which modules can be built and
2915eb07bd25 Update build notes to mention setup.py Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> parents: 16775 diff changeset	753 automatically compiles them. Autodetection doesn't always work, so
21900 57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	754 you can still customize the configuration by editing the Modules/Setup
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	755 file; but this should be considered a last resort. The rest of this
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	756 section only applies if you decide to edit the Modules/Setup file.
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	757 You also need this to enable static linking of certain modules (which
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	758 is needed to enable profiling on some systems).
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	759
16776 2915eb07bd25 Update build notes to mention setup.py Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> parents: 16775 diff changeset	760 This file is initially copied from Setup.dist by the configure script;
2915eb07bd25 Update build notes to mention setup.py Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> parents: 16775 diff changeset	761 if it does not exist yet, create it by copying Modules/Setup.dist
2915eb07bd25 Update build notes to mention setup.py Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> parents: 16775 diff changeset	762 yourself (configure will never overwrite it). Never edit Setup.dist
2915eb07bd25 Update build notes to mention setup.py Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> parents: 16775 diff changeset	763 -- always edit Setup or Setup.local (see below). Read the comments in
2915eb07bd25 Update build notes to mention setup.py Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> parents: 16775 diff changeset	764 the file for information on what kind of edits are allowed. When you
2915eb07bd25 Update build notes to mention setup.py Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> parents: 16775 diff changeset	765 have edited Setup in the Modules directory, the interpreter will
20270 ce4a7e4ad6c4 Remove false statement about running make in the Modules directory. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 20252 diff changeset	766 automatically be rebuilt the next time you run make (in the toplevel
ce4a7e4ad6c4 Remove false statement about running make in the Modules directory. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 20252 diff changeset	767 directory).
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	768
16776 2915eb07bd25 Update build notes to mention setup.py Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> parents: 16775 diff changeset	769 Many useful modules can be built on any Unix system, but some optional
2915eb07bd25 Update build notes to mention setup.py Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> parents: 16775 diff changeset	770 modules can't be reliably autodetected. Often the quickest way to
2915eb07bd25 Update build notes to mention setup.py Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> parents: 16775 diff changeset	771 determine whether a particular module works or not is to see if it
2915eb07bd25 Update build notes to mention setup.py Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> parents: 16775 diff changeset	772 will build: enable it in Setup, then if you get compilation or link
15325 65594feb5527 Try to clarify when the Modules/Setup file should be edited. Added Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 15249 diff changeset	773 errors, disable it -- you're either missing support or need to adjust
65594feb5527 Try to clarify when the Modules/Setup file should be edited. Added Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 15249 diff changeset	774 the compilation and linking parameters for that module.
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	775
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	776 On SGI IRIX, there are modules that interface to many SGI specific
16776 2915eb07bd25 Update build notes to mention setup.py Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> parents: 16775 diff changeset	777 system libraries, e.g. the GL library and the audio hardware. These
2915eb07bd25 Update build notes to mention setup.py Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> parents: 16775 diff changeset	778 modules will not be built by the setup.py script.
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	779
5037 9ad7b8c36c79 Various notes added: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4501 diff changeset	780 In addition to the file Setup, you can also edit the file Setup.local.
9ad7b8c36c79 Various notes added: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4501 diff changeset	781 (the makesetup script processes both). You may find it more
9ad7b8c36c79 Various notes added: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4501 diff changeset	782 convenient to edit Setup.local and leave Setup alone. Then, when
9ad7b8c36c79 Various notes added: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4501 diff changeset	783 installing a new Python version, you can copy your old Setup.local
9ad7b8c36c79 Various notes added: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4501 diff changeset	784 file.
9ad7b8c36c79 Various notes added: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 4501 diff changeset	785
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	786
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	787 Setting the optimization/debugging options
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	788 ------------------------------------------
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	789
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	790 If you want or need to change the optimization/debugging options for
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	791 the C compiler, assign to the OPT variable on the toplevel make
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	792 command; e.g. "make OPT=-g" will build a debugging version of Python
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	793 on most platforms. The default is OPT=-O; a value for OPT in the
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	794 environment when the configure script is run overrides this default
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	795 (likewise for CC; and the initial value for LIBS is used as the base
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	796 set of libraries to link with).
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	797
15325 65594feb5527 Try to clarify when the Modules/Setup file should be edited. Added Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 15249 diff changeset	798 When compiling with GCC, the default value of OPT will also include
65594feb5527 Try to clarify when the Modules/Setup file should be edited. Added Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 15249 diff changeset	799 the -Wall and -Wstrict-prototypes options.
65594feb5527 Try to clarify when the Modules/Setup file should be edited. Added Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 15249 diff changeset	800
65594feb5527 Try to clarify when the Modules/Setup file should be edited. Added Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 15249 diff changeset	801 Additional debugging code to help debug memory management problems can
65594feb5527 Try to clarify when the Modules/Setup file should be edited. Added Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 15249 diff changeset	802 be enabled by using the --with-pydebug option to the configure script.
65594feb5527 Try to clarify when the Modules/Setup file should be edited. Added Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 15249 diff changeset	803
34929 08e20e9c76fb Introduced EXTRA_CFLAGS as an environment variable used by the Makefile. Meant Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com> parents: 34629 diff changeset	804 For flags that change binary compatibility, use the EXTRA_CFLAGS
08e20e9c76fb Introduced EXTRA_CFLAGS as an environment variable used by the Makefile. Meant Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com> parents: 34629 diff changeset	805 variable.
08e20e9c76fb Introduced EXTRA_CFLAGS as an environment variable used by the Makefile. Meant Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com> parents: 34629 diff changeset	806
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	807
20252 b85cd163cd5c Add note about profiling. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 19758 diff changeset	808 Profiling
b85cd163cd5c Add note about profiling. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 19758 diff changeset	809 ---------
b85cd163cd5c Add note about profiling. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 19758 diff changeset	810
b85cd163cd5c Add note about profiling. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 19758 diff changeset	811 If you want C profiling turned on, the easiest way is to run configure
b85cd163cd5c Add note about profiling. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 19758 diff changeset	812 with the CC environment variable to the necessary compiler
b85cd163cd5c Add note about profiling. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 19758 diff changeset	813 invocation. For example, on Linux, this works for profiling using
b85cd163cd5c Add note about profiling. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 19758 diff changeset	814 gprof(1):
b85cd163cd5c Add note about profiling. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 19758 diff changeset	815
b85cd163cd5c Add note about profiling. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 19758 diff changeset	816 CC="gcc -pg" ./configure
b85cd163cd5c Add note about profiling. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 19758 diff changeset	817
b85cd163cd5c Add note about profiling. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 19758 diff changeset	818 Note that on Linux, gprof apparently does not work for shared
b85cd163cd5c Add note about profiling. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 19758 diff changeset	819 libraries. The Makefile/Setup mechanism can be used to compile and
27619 558d0f3b6254 Fix typos. Walter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de> parents: 27253 diff changeset	820 link most extension modules statically.
20252 b85cd163cd5c Add note about profiling. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 19758 diff changeset	821
b85cd163cd5c Add note about profiling. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 19758 diff changeset	822
47156 2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	823 Coverage checking
2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	824 -----------------
2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	825
2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	826 For C coverage checking using gcov, run "make coverage". This will
2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	827 build a Python binary with profiling activated, and a ".gcno" and
2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	828 ".gcda" file for every source file compiled with that option. With
2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	829 the built binary, now run the code whose coverage you want to check.
2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	830 Then, you can see coverage statistics for each individual source file
2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	831 by running gcov, e.g.
2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	832
2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	833 gcov -o Modules zlibmodule
2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	834
2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	835 This will create a "zlibmodule.c.gcov" file in the current directory
2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	836 containing coverage info for that source file.
2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	837
2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	838 This works only for source files statically compiled into the
2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	839 executable; use the Makefile/Setup mechanism to compile and link
2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	840 extension modules you want to coverage-check statically.
2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	841
2e9f572b7322 GHOP #217: add support for compiling Python with coverage checking enabled. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 46735 diff changeset	842
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	843 Testing
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	844 -------
1453 d773a5f89426 New files Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: diff changeset	845
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	846 To test the interpreter, type "make test" in the top-level directory.
5525 8582f74a1d23 Update description of "make test" to new test harness. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 5466 diff changeset	847 This runs the test set twice (once with no compiled files, once with
8582f74a1d23 Update description of "make test" to new test harness. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 5466 diff changeset	848 the compiled files left by the previous test run). The test set
8582f74a1d23 Update description of "make test" to new test harness. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 5466 diff changeset	849 produces some output. You can generally ignore the messages about
21900 57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	850 skipped tests due to optional features which can't be imported.
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	851 If a message is printed about a failed test or a traceback or core
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	852 dump is produced, something is wrong. On some Linux systems (those
6990 b2445c93f03b Refine note about strftime test failure (it's fixed in Linux glibc 6). Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6908 diff changeset	853 that are not yet using glibc 6), test_strftime fails due to a
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	854 non-standard implementation of strftime() in the C library. Please
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	855 ignore this, or upgrade to glibc version 6.
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	856
51825 fa747660d4d4 update README on running tests Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> parents: 50431 diff changeset	857 By default, tests are prevented from overusing resources like disk space and
fa747660d4d4 update README on running tests Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> parents: 50431 diff changeset	858 memory. To enable these tests, run "make testall".
fa747660d4d4 update README on running tests Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> parents: 50431 diff changeset	859
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	860 IMPORTANT: If the tests fail and you decide to mail a bug report,
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	861 don't include the output of "make test". It is useless. Run the
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	862 failing test manually, as follows:
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	863
51825 fa747660d4d4 update README on running tests Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> parents: 50431 diff changeset	864 ./python Lib/test/regrtest.py -v test_whatever
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	865
22436 888fcd9b858d [Bug #532136] Change path in README, as suggested by Ralph Corderoy Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> parents: 22215 diff changeset	866 (substituting the top of the source tree for '.' if you built in a
5525 8582f74a1d23 Update description of "make test" to new test harness. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 5466 diff changeset	867 different directory). This runs the test in verbose mode.
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	868
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	869
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	870 Installing
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	871 ----------
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	872
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	873 To install the Python binary, library modules, shared library modules
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	874 (see below), include files, configuration files, and the manual page,
6675 cdb3279b06e7 Revamped README for release of 1.5b1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6494 diff changeset	875 just type
cdb3279b06e7 Revamped README for release of 1.5b1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6494 diff changeset	876
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	877 make install
6675 cdb3279b06e7 Revamped README for release of 1.5b1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6494 diff changeset	878
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	879 This will install all platform-independent files in subdirectories of
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	880 the directory given with the --prefix option to configure or to the
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	881 `prefix' Make variable (default /usr/local). All binary and other
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	882 platform-specific files will be installed in subdirectories if the
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	883 directory given by --exec-prefix or the `exec_prefix' Make variable
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	884 (defaults to the --prefix directory) is given.
6675 cdb3279b06e7 Revamped README for release of 1.5b1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6494 diff changeset	885
29074 988b3e807043 Patch #718286: Support DESTDIR. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 28924 diff changeset	886 If DESTDIR is set, it will be taken as the root directory of the
988b3e807043 Patch #718286: Support DESTDIR. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 28924 diff changeset	887 installation, and files will be installed into $(DESTDIR)$(prefix),
988b3e807043 Patch #718286: Support DESTDIR. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 28924 diff changeset	888 $(DESTDIR)$(exec_prefix), etc.
988b3e807043 Patch #718286: Support DESTDIR. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 28924 diff changeset	889
6675 cdb3279b06e7 Revamped README for release of 1.5b1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6494 diff changeset	890 All subdirectories created will have Python's version number in their
cdb3279b06e7 Revamped README for release of 1.5b1. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6494 diff changeset	891 name, e.g. the library modules are installed in
15986 bd5aee6b8390 Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 15546 diff changeset	892 "/usr/local/lib/python<version>/" by default, where <version> is the
bd5aee6b8390 Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 15546 diff changeset	893 <major>.<minor> release number (e.g. "2.1"). The Python binary is
bd5aee6b8390 Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 15546 diff changeset	894 installed as "python<version>" and a hard link named "python" is
bd5aee6b8390 Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 15546 diff changeset	895 created. The only file not installed with a version number in its
bd5aee6b8390 Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 15546 diff changeset	896 name is the manual page, installed as "/usr/local/man/man1/python.1"
bd5aee6b8390 Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 15546 diff changeset	897 by default.
1453 d773a5f89426 New files Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: diff changeset	898
45673 2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	899 If you want to install multiple versions of Python see the section below
2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	900 entitled "Installing multiple versions".
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	901
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	902 The only thing you may have to install manually is the Python mode for
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	903 Emacs found in Misc/python-mode.el. (But then again, more recent
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	904 versions of Emacs may already have it.) Follow the instructions that
f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	905 came with Emacs for installation of site-specific files.
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	906
19381 60d5cbbeadc3 Removed NeXT notes (replacing them with a line saying NeXT is no Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> parents: 17734 diff changeset	907 On Mac OS X, if you have configured Python with --enable-framework, you
60d5cbbeadc3 Removed NeXT notes (replacing them with a line saying NeXT is no Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> parents: 17734 diff changeset	908 should use "make frameworkinstall" to do the installation. Note that this
60d5cbbeadc3 Removed NeXT notes (replacing them with a line saying NeXT is no Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> parents: 17734 diff changeset	909 installs the Python executable in a place that is not normally on your
60d5cbbeadc3 Removed NeXT notes (replacing them with a line saying NeXT is no Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> parents: 17734 diff changeset	910 PATH, you may want to set up a symlink in /usr/local/bin.
60d5cbbeadc3 Removed NeXT notes (replacing them with a line saying NeXT is no Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> parents: 17734 diff changeset	911
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	912
45673 2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	913 Installing multiple versions
2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	914 ----------------------------
2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	915
2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	916 On Unix and Mac systems if you intend to install multiple versions of Python
2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	917 using the same installation prefix (--prefix argument to the configure
2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	918 script) you must take care that your primary python executable is not
55091 0e391bf3eb9d #6398 typo: versio. -> version. Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> parents: 53602 diff changeset	919 overwritten by the installation of a different version. All files and
45673 2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	920 directories installed using "make altinstall" contain the major and minor
2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	921 version and can thus live side-by-side. "make install" also creates
2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	922 ${prefix}/bin/python which refers to ${prefix}/bin/pythonX.Y. If you intend
2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	923 to install multiple versions using the same prefix you must decide which
2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	924 version (if any) is your "primary" version. Install that version using
2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	925 "make install". Install all other versions using "make altinstall".
2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	926
2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	927 For example, if you want to install Python 2.5, 2.6 and 3.0 with 2.6 being
2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	928 the primary version, you would execute "make install" in your 2.6 build
2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	929 directory and "make altinstall" in the others.
2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	930
2216b100b2d2 Elaborate on the role of the altinstall target when installing multiple Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> parents: 45590 diff changeset	931
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	932 Configuration options and variables
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	933 -----------------------------------
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	934
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	935 Some special cases are handled by passing options to the configure
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	936 script.
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	937
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	938 WARNING: if you rerun the configure script with different options, you
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	939 must run "make clean" before rebuilding. Exceptions to this rule:
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	940 after changing --prefix or --exec-prefix, all you need to do is remove
5951 8d7dc66968cb --with-readline is obsolete (and some editorial stuff in README) Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 5591 diff changeset	941 Modules/getpath.o.
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	942
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	943 --with(out)-gcc: The configure script uses gcc (the GNU C compiler) if
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	944 it finds it. If you don't want this, or if this compiler is
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	945 installed but broken on your platform, pass the option
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	946 --without-gcc. You can also pass "CC=cc" (or whatever the
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	947 name of the proper C compiler is) in the environment, but the
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	948 advantage of using --without-gcc is that this option is
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	949 remembered by the config.status script for its --recheck
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	950 option.
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	951
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	952 --prefix, --exec-prefix: If you want to install the binaries and the
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	953 Python library somewhere else than in /usr/local/{bin,lib},
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	954 you can pass the option --prefix=DIRECTORY; the interpreter
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	955 binary will be installed as DIRECTORY/bin/python and the
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	956 library files as DIRECTORY/lib/python/*. If you pass
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	957 --exec-prefix=DIRECTORY (as well) this overrides the
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	958 installation prefix for architecture-dependent files (like the
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	959 interpreter binary). Note that --prefix=DIRECTORY also
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	960 affects the default module search path (sys.path), when
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	961 Modules/config.c is compiled. Passing make the option
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	962 prefix=DIRECTORY (and/or exec_prefix=DIRECTORY) overrides the
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	963 prefix set at configuration time; this may be more convenient
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	964 than re-running the configure script if you change your mind
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	965 about the install prefix.
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	966
21900 57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	967 --with-readline: This option is no longer supported. GNU
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	968 readline is automatically enabled by setup.py when present.
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	969
14249 4e3640a06857 Various tweaks and improvements by Thomas Wouters (who apparently lost Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14144 diff changeset	970 --with-threads: On most Unix systems, you can now use multiple
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	971 threads, and support for this is enabled by default. To
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	972 disable this, pass --with-threads=no. If the library required
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	973 for threads lives in a peculiar place, you can use
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	974 --with-thread=DIRECTORY. IMPORTANT: run "make clean" after
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	975 changing (either enabling or disabling) this option, or you
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	976 will get link errors! Note: for DEC Unix use
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	977 --with-dec-threads instead.
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	978
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	979 --with-sgi-dl: On SGI IRIX 4, dynamic loading of extension modules is
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	980 supported by the "dl" library by Jack Jansen, which is
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	981 ftp'able from ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/dynload/dl-1.6.tar.Z.
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	982 This is enabled (after you've ftp'ed and compiled the dl
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	983 library) by passing --with-sgi-dl=DIRECTORY where DIRECTORY
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	984 is the absolute pathname of the dl library. (Don't bother on
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	985 IRIX 5, it already has dynamic linking using SunOS style
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	986 shared libraries.) THIS OPTION IS UNSUPPORTED.
2049 07cf3b3baf16 The usual changes when a release is nearing... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2015 diff changeset	987
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	988 --with-dl-dld: Dynamic loading of modules is rumored to be supported
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	989 on some other systems: VAX (Ultrix), Sun3 (SunOS 3.4), Sequent
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	990 Symmetry (Dynix), and Atari ST. This is done using a
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	991 combination of the GNU dynamic loading package
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	992 (ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/dynload/dl-dld-1.1.tar.Z) and an
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	993 emulation of the SGI dl library mentioned above (the emulation
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	994 can be found at
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	995 ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/dynload/dld-3.2.3.tar.Z). To
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	996 enable this, ftp and compile both libraries, then call
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	997 configure, passing it the option
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	998 --with-dl-dld=DL_DIRECTORY,DLD_DIRECTORY where DL_DIRECTORY is
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	999 the absolute pathname of the dl emulation library and
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1000 DLD_DIRECTORY is the absolute pathname of the GNU dld library.
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1001 (Don't bother on SunOS 4 or 5, they already have dynamic
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1002 linking using shared libraries.) THIS OPTION IS UNSUPPORTED.
2049 07cf3b3baf16 The usual changes when a release is nearing... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2015 diff changeset	1003
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	1004 --with-libm, --with-libc: It is possible to specify alternative
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1005 versions for the Math library (default -lm) and the C library
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1006 (default the empty string) using the options
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1007 --with-libm=STRING and --with-libc=STRING, respectively. For
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1008 example, if your system requires that you pass -lc_s to the C
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1009 compiler to use the shared C library, you can pass
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1010 --with-libc=-lc_s. These libraries are passed after all other
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1011 libraries, the C library last.
17542 4493199d2b95 This is (hopefully) last checkin before releasing 2.1c2 -- get rid of Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 17512 diff changeset	1012
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	1013 --with-libs='libs': Add 'libs' to the LIBS that the python interpreter
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1014 is linked against.
3893 958d4c67526b Added doc para for --with-libs Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3887 diff changeset	1015
37709 37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1016 --with-cxx-main=<compiler>: If you plan to use C++ extension modules,
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1017 then -- on some platforms -- you need to compile python's main()
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1018 function with the C++ compiler. With this option, make will use
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1019 <compiler> to compile main() and to link the python executable.
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1020 It is likely that the resulting executable depends on the C++
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1021 runtime library of <compiler>. (The default is --without-cxx-main.)
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1022
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1023 There are platforms that do not require you to build Python
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1024 with a C++ compiler in order to use C++ extension modules.
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1025 E.g., x86 Linux with ELF shared binaries and GCC 3.x, 4.x is such
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1026 a platform. We recommend that you configure Python
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1027 --without-cxx-main on those platforms because a mismatch
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1028 between the C++ compiler version used to build Python and to
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1029 build a C++ extension module is likely to cause a crash at
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1030 runtime.
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1031
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1032 The Python installation also stores the variable CXX that
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1033 determines, e.g., the C++ compiler distutils calls by default
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1034 to build C++ extensions. If you set CXX on the configure command
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1035 line to any string of non-zero length, then configure won't
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1036 change CXX. If you do not preset CXX but pass
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1037 --with-cxx-main=<compiler>, then configure sets CXX=<compiler>.
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1038 In all other cases, configure looks for a C++ compiler by
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1039 some common names (c++, g++, gcc, CC, cxx, cc++, cl) and sets
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1040 CXX to the first compiler it finds. If it does not find any
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1041 C++ compiler, then it sets CXX="".
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1042
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1043 Similarly, if you want to change the command used to link the
37a8eb74c504 Patch #1324762: Change --with-cxx to --with-cxx-main. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37691 diff changeset	1044 python executable, then set LINKCC on the configure command line.
15546 bb93b1dca571 Document --with-cxx. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 15344 diff changeset	1045
bb93b1dca571 Document --with-cxx. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 15344 diff changeset	1046
15325 65594feb5527 Try to clarify when the Modules/Setup file should be edited. Added Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 15249 diff changeset	1047 --with-pydebug: Enable additional debugging code to help track down
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1048 memory management problems. This allows printing a list of all
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1049 live objects when the interpreter terminates.
34629 080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	1050
23029 8291473fde3e Mass checkin of universal newline support. Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> parents: 22662 diff changeset	1051 --with(out)-universal-newlines: enable reading of text files with
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1052 foreign newline convention (default: enabled). In other words,
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1053 any of \r, \n or \r\n is acceptable as end-of-line character.
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1054 If enabled import and execfile will automatically accept any newline
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1055 in files. Python code can open a file with open(file, 'U') to
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1056 read it in universal newline mode. THIS OPTION IS UNSUPPORTED.
15325 65594feb5527 Try to clarify when the Modules/Setup file should be edited. Added Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> parents: 15249 diff changeset	1057
32301 41c59d80bbc5 Patch #510695: Add TSC profiling for the VM. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 32027 diff changeset	1058 --with-tsc: Profile using the Pentium timestamping counter (TSC).
2049 07cf3b3baf16 The usual changes when a release is nearing... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2015 diff changeset	1059
37605 e070c316eb45 Patch #1464444: Add --with-system-ffi. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37431 diff changeset	1060 --with-system-ffi: Build the _ctypes extension module using an ffi
44242 66dbe12ddf31 Remove all tabs in that file. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 44241 diff changeset	1061 library installed on the system.
37605 e070c316eb45 Patch #1464444: Add --with-system-ffi. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 37431 diff changeset	1062
53602 2ef2cb5773fe - Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> parents: 52598 diff changeset	1063 --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:...: Specify the order that backends for the
2ef2cb5773fe - Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> parents: 52598 diff changeset	1064 dbm extension are checked. Valid value is a colon separated string
2ef2cb5773fe - Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> parents: 52598 diff changeset	1065 with the backend names `ndbm', `gdbm' and `bdb'.
34629 080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	1066
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1067 Building for multiple architectures (using the VPATH feature)
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1068 -------------------------------------------------------------
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1069
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1070 If your file system is shared between multiple architectures, it
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1071 usually is not necessary to make copies of the sources for each
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1072 architecture you want to support. If the make program supports the
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1073 VPATH feature, you can create an empty build directory for each
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1074 architecture, and in each directory run the configure script (on the
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1075 appropriate machine with the appropriate options). This creates the
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1076 necessary subdirectories and the Makefiles therein. The Makefiles
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	1077 contain a line VPATH=... which points to a directory containing the
4134 69edc67e5a68 Updated for 1.4beta3 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3922 diff changeset	1078 actual sources. (On SGI systems, use "smake -J1" instead of "make" if
69edc67e5a68 Updated for 1.4beta3 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3922 diff changeset	1079 you use VPATH -- don't try gnumake.)
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1080
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1081 For example, the following is all you need to build a minimal Python
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1082 in /usr/tmp/python (assuming ~guido/src/python is the toplevel
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1083 directory and you want to build in /usr/tmp/python):
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1084
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1085 $ mkdir /usr/tmp/python
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1086 $ cd /usr/tmp/python
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1087 $ ~guido/src/python/configure
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1088 [...]
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1089 $ make
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1090 [...]
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1091 $
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1092
16288 c0a2441a4454 - Edit the QNX instructions to refer to Makefile, not Modules/Makefile. Neil Schemenauer <nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca> parents: 16229 diff changeset	1093 Note that configure copies the original Setup file to the build
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1094 directory if it finds no Setup file there. This means that you can
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1095 edit the Setup file for each architecture independently. For this
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1096 reason, subsequent changes to the original Setup file are not tracked
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1097 automatically, as they might overwrite local changes. To force a copy
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1098 of a changed original Setup file, delete the target Setup file. (The
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1099 makesetup script supports multiple input files, so if you want to be
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1100 fancy you can change the rules to create an empty Setup.local if it
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1101 doesn't exist and run it with arguments $(srcdir)/Setup Setup.local;
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1102 however this assumes that you only need to add modules.)
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1103
44285 226a062ab43e Fixed bug #1613: Makefile's VPATH feature is broken Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de> parents: 44242 diff changeset	1104 Also note that you can't use a workspace for VPATH and non VPATH builds. The
226a062ab43e Fixed bug #1613: Makefile's VPATH feature is broken Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de> parents: 44242 diff changeset	1105 object files left behind by one version confuses the other.
226a062ab43e Fixed bug #1613: Makefile's VPATH feature is broken Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de> parents: 44242 diff changeset	1106
1453 d773a5f89426 New files Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: diff changeset	1107
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1108 Building on non-UNIX systems
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1109 ----------------------------
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1110
34255 e81152152433 Update VC references. Backported to 2.4. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 34042 diff changeset	1111 For Windows (2000/NT/ME/98/95), assuming you have MS VC++ 7.1, the
14673 df8d575d967d Updated Windows build info. Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> parents: 14429 diff changeset	1112 project files are in PCbuild, the workspace is pcbuild.dsw. See
df8d575d967d Updated Windows build info. Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> parents: 14429 diff changeset	1113 PCbuild\readme.txt for detailed instructions.
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1114
34255 e81152152433 Update VC references. Backported to 2.4. Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> parents: 34042 diff changeset	1115 For other non-Unix Windows compilers, in particular MS VC++ 6.0 and
10572 10bd2fb2a0d6 Clarify PC build instructions (point to PCbuild). Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 10565 diff changeset	1116 for OS/2, enter the directory "PC" and read the file "readme.txt".
3887 957f42ea0f84 Numerous changes, but still a lot of XXX thingies. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3850 diff changeset	1117
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1118 For the Mac, a separate source distribution will be made available,
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1119 for use with the CodeWarrior compiler. If you are interested in Mac
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1120 development, join the PythonMac Special Interest Group
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1121 (http://www.python.org/sigs/pythonmac-sig/, or send email to
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1122 pythonmac-sig-request@python.org).
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1123
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1124 Of course, there are also binary distributions available for these
15986 bd5aee6b8390 Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 15546 diff changeset	1125 platforms -- see http://www.python.org/.
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1126
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1127 To port Python to a new non-UNIX system, you will have to fake the
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1128 effect of running the configure script manually (for Mac and PC, this
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1129 has already been done for you). A good start is to copy the file
23962 111c1e59ad72 Random tweaks & updates. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 23867 diff changeset	1130 pyconfig.h.in to pyconfig.h and edit the latter to reflect the actual
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1131 configuration of your system. Most symbols must simply be defined as
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1132 1 only if the corresponding feature is present and can be left alone
23962 111c1e59ad72 Random tweaks & updates. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 23867 diff changeset	1133 otherwise; however the *_t type symbols must be defined as some
111c1e59ad72 Random tweaks & updates. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 23867 diff changeset	1134 variant of int if they need to be defined at all.
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1135
21414 f536f85295b8 Merge last minute 2.2c1 changes from branch to trunk. Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> parents: 21367 diff changeset	1136 For all platforms, it's important that the build arrange to define the
f536f85295b8 Merge last minute 2.2c1 changes from branch to trunk. Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> parents: 21367 diff changeset	1137 preprocessor symbol NDEBUG on the compiler command line in a release
f536f85295b8 Merge last minute 2.2c1 changes from branch to trunk. Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> parents: 21367 diff changeset	1138 build of Python (else assert() calls remain in the code, hurting
f536f85295b8 Merge last minute 2.2c1 changes from branch to trunk. Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> parents: 21367 diff changeset	1139 release-build performance). The Unix, Windows and Mac builds already
f536f85295b8 Merge last minute 2.2c1 changes from branch to trunk. Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> parents: 21367 diff changeset	1140 do this.
1453 d773a5f89426 New files Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: diff changeset	1141
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	1142
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	1143 Miscellaneous issues
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	1144 ====================
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	1145
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	1146 Emacs mode
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	1147 ----------
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	1148
6448 b854ca4605e1 Ready for the release, I'd say. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6132 diff changeset	1149 There's an excellent Emacs editing mode for Python code; see the file
b854ca4605e1 Ready for the release, I'd say. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6132 diff changeset	1150 Misc/python-mode.el. Originally written by the famous Tim Peters, it
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	1151 is now maintained by the equally famous Barry Warsaw (it's no
15986 bd5aee6b8390 Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 15546 diff changeset	1152 coincidence that they now both work on the same team). The latest
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	1153 version, along with various other contributed Python-related Emacs
55721 675a3c1824f4 #6775: fix python.org URLs in README. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 55091 diff changeset	1154 goodies, is online at http://www.python.org/emacs/python-mode/. And
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	1155 if you are planning to edit the Python C code, please pick up the
55721 675a3c1824f4 #6775: fix python.org URLs in README. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 55091 diff changeset	1156 latest version of CC Mode http://www.python.org/emacs/cc-mode/; it
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	1157 contains a "python" style used throughout most of the Python C source
648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	1158 files. (Newer versions of Emacs or XEmacs may already come with the
648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	1159 latest version of python-mode.)
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	1160
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	1161
21900 57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	1162 Tkinter
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	1163 -------
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1164
21900 57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	1165 The setup.py script automatically configures this when it detects a
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	1166 usable Tcl/Tk installation. This requires Tcl/Tk version 8.0 or
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	1167 higher.
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	1168
13262 c6fd6ffbcb15 Update a bunch of URLs. No longer suggests to join PSA or Consortium. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 13232 diff changeset	1169 For more Tkinter information, see the Tkinter Resource page:
c6fd6ffbcb15 Update a bunch of URLs. No longer suggests to join PSA or Consortium. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 13232 diff changeset	1170 http://www.python.org/topics/tkinter/
6448 b854ca4605e1 Ready for the release, I'd say. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6132 diff changeset	1171
34629 080d8cfed9d4 A few random updates to make things less horrifyingly out of date. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 34493 diff changeset	1172 There are demos in the Demo/tkinter directory.
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	1173
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	1174 Note that there's a Python module called "Tkinter" (capital T) which
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	1175 lives in Lib/lib-tk/Tkinter.py, and a C module called "_tkinter"
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1176 (lower case t and leading underscore) which lives in
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	1177 Modules/_tkinter.c. Demos and normal Tk applications import only the
21900 57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	1178 Python Tkinter module -- only the latter imports the C _tkinter
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	1179 module. In order to find the C _tkinter module, it must be compiled
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	1180 and linked into the Python interpreter -- the setup.py script does
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	1181 this. In order to find the Python Tkinter module, sys.path must be
57eaa5d69ac3 Updates related to Modules/Setup and setup.py. This addresses SF bug Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 21865 diff changeset	1182 set correctly -- normal installation takes care of this.
3008 a51022f1980f 1.3b1 notes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2730 diff changeset	1183
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	1184
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1185 Distribution structure
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1186 ----------------------
8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1187
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	1188 Most subdirectories have their own README files. Most files have
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1189 comments.
1453 d773a5f89426 New files Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: diff changeset	1190
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1191 Demo/ Demonstration scripts, modules and programs
45259 8689b67265bf Docs are rst now. Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> parents: 44472 diff changeset	1192 Doc/ Documentation sources (reStructuredText)
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1193 Grammar/ Input for the parser generator
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1194 Include/ Public header files
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1195 LICENSE Licensing information
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1196 Lib/ Python library modules
23962 111c1e59ad72 Random tweaks & updates. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 23867 diff changeset	1197 Mac/ Macintosh specific resources
16229 e302586452a3 Update the build instructions for flat makefile. Neil Schemenauer <nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca> parents: 15986 diff changeset	1198 Makefile.pre.in Source from which config.status creates the Makefile.pre
6448 b854ca4605e1 Ready for the release, I'd say. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6132 diff changeset	1199 Misc/ Miscellaneous useful files
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1200 Modules/ Implementation of most built-in modules
e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1201 Objects/ Implementation of most built-in object types
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	1202 PC/ Files specific to PC ports (DOS, Windows, OS/2)
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1203 PCbuild/ Build directory for Microsoft Visual C++
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1204 Parser/ The parser and tokenizer and their input handling
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	1205 Python/ The byte-compiler and interpreter
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1206 README The file you're reading now
41791 31029f6ebca2 Update directories/files at the top-level. Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com> parents: 41790 diff changeset	1207 RISCOS/ Files specific to RISC OS port
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1208 Tools/ Some useful programs written in Python
23962 111c1e59ad72 Random tweaks & updates. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 23867 diff changeset	1209 pyconfig.h.in Source from which pyconfig.h is created (GNU autoheader output)
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1210 configure Configuration shell script (GNU autoconf output)
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	1211 configure.in Configuration specification (input for GNU autoconf)
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1212 install-sh Shell script used to install files
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1213 setup.py Python script used to build extension modules
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	1214
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	1215 The following files will (may) be created in the toplevel directory by
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	1216 the configuration and build processes:
3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	1217
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1218 Makefile Build rules
16229 e302586452a3 Update the build instructions for flat makefile. Neil Schemenauer <nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca> parents: 15986 diff changeset	1219 Makefile.pre Build rules before running Modules/makesetup
23962 111c1e59ad72 Random tweaks & updates. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 23867 diff changeset	1220 buildno Keeps track of the build number
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	1221 config.cache Cache of configuration variables
23962 111c1e59ad72 Random tweaks & updates. Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> parents: 23867 diff changeset	1222 pyconfig.h Configuration header
6448 b854ca4605e1 Ready for the release, I'd say. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 6132 diff changeset	1223 config.log Log from last configure run
14425 f8e668447e2a Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14385 diff changeset	1224 config.status Status from last run of the configure script
37430 fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1225 getbuildinfo.o Object file from Modules/getbuildinfo.c
fbc62db97e43 added sqlite3 section Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> parents: 37113 diff changeset	1226 libpython<version>.a The library archive
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1227 python The executable interpreter
41791 31029f6ebca2 Update directories/files at the top-level. Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com> parents: 41790 diff changeset	1228 reflog.txt Output from running the regression suite with the -R flag
3922 e8bd430cd357 Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 3893 diff changeset	1229 tags, TAGS Tags files for vi and Emacs
1453 d773a5f89426 New files Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: diff changeset	1230
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1231
14367 648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	1232 That's all, folks!
648a12a780d9 Ready to go. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 14249 diff changeset	1233 ------------------
2658 3a3df231327c revamped README; the usual elsewhere... Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 2510 diff changeset	1234
1748 8286a662502b Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 1456 diff changeset	1235
15986 bd5aee6b8390 Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs. Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> parents: 15546 diff changeset	1236 --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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