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This is Python version 2.0 beta 1
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Copyright (c) 2000 BeOpen.com.
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All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 1995-2000 Corporation for National Research Initiatives.
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All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum.
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All rights reserved.
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License information
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See the file "LICENSE" for information on the history of this
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software, terms & conditions for usage, and a DISCLAIMER OF ALL
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WARRANTIES.
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This Python distribution contains no GNU General Public Licensed
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(GPLed) code so it may be used in proprietary projects just like prior
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Python distributions. There are interfaces to some GNU code but these
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are entirely optional.
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All trademarks referenced herein are property of their respective
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holders.
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What's new in this release?
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See the file "Misc/NEWS"; see also this URL:
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http://www.pythonlabs.com/tech/python2.html
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If you don't read instructions
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Congratulations on getting this far. :-)
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To start building right away (on UNIX): type "./configure" in the
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current directory and when it finishes, type "make". The section
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`Build Instructions' below is still recommended reading, especially
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the part on customizing Modules/Setup.
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What is Python anyway?
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Python is an interpreted object-oriented programming language suitable
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(amongst other uses) for distributed application development,
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scripting, numeric computing and system testing. Python is often
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compared to Tcl, Perl, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic or Scheme. To
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find out more about what Python can do for you, point your browser to
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http://www.pythonlabs.com/.
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BeOpen.com offers corporate support, custom development and
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sponsorships for Python. Contact <sales@beopen.com> for more
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information.
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BeOpen Python releases include pre-built Python executables for major
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platforms and are available from PythonLabs.
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1996-10-25 14:32:48 +00:00
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How do I learn Python?
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The official tutorial is still a good place to start; see
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http://www.python.org/doc/ for online and downloadable versions, as
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well as a list of other introductions, and reference documentation.
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There's a quickly growing set of books on Python. See
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http://www.python.org/psa/bookstore/ for a list.
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Documentation
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All documentation is provided online in a variety of formats. In
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order of importance for new users: Tutorial, Library Reference,
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Language Reference, Extending & Embedding, and the Python/C API. The
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Library Reference is especially of immense value since much of
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Python's power is described there, including the built-in data types
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and functions!
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All documentation is also available online at the Python web site
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(http://www.python.org/doc/, see below). It is available online for
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occasional reference, or can be downloaded in many formats for faster
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access. The documentation is available in HTML, PostScript, PDF, HTML
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Help, and LaTeX formats; the LaTeX version is primarily for
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documentation authors or people with special formatting requirements.
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Web sites
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New Python releases and related technologies are published at
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http://www.pythonlabs.com/. Come visit us!
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The present Python community web site is http://www.python.org/.
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BeOpen.com is developing a next-generation community site for Python
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and is looking for volunteers to help make this an even better
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resource than the existing community site. If you know Python well
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and would like to volunteer to work with us on this project, please
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contact <volunteer@pythonlabs.com> with a summary of your skills.
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Newsgroups and Mailing Lists
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Read comp.lang.python, a high-volume discussion newsgroup about
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Python, or comp.lang.python.announce, a low-volume moderated newsgroup
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for Python-related announcements. These are also accessible as
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mailing lists: see http://www.python.org/psa/MailingLists.html for an
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overview of the many Python-related mailing lists.
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Archives are accessible via Deja.com Usenet News: see
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http://www.deja.com/usenet. The mailing lists are also archived, see
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http://www.python.org/psa/MailingLists.html for details.
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Bug reports
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To report or search for bugs, please use the Python Bug
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Tracker at http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=5470.
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Patches and contributions
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To submit a patch or other contribution, please use the Python
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Patch Manager at http://sourceforge.net/patch/?group_id=5470.
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If you have a proposal to change Python, it's best to submit a Python
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Enhancement Proposal (PEP) first. All current PEPs, as well as
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guidelines for submitting a new PEP, are list at
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http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/.
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Questions
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For help, if you can't find it in the manuals or on the web site, it's
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best to post to the comp.lang.python or the Python mailing list (see
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above). If you specifically don't want to involve the newsgroup or
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mailing list, send questions to <help@python.org> (a group of
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volunteers who answer questions as they can). The newsgroup is the
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most efficient way to ask public questions.
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Build instructions
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==================
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Before you can build Python, you must first configure it. Fortunately,
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the configuration and build process has been streamlined for most Unix
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installations, so all you have to do is type a few commands,
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optionally edit one file, and sit back. There are some platforms
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where things are not quite as smooth; see the platform specific notes
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below. If you want to build for multiple platforms sharing the same
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source tree, see the section on VPATH below.
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You start by running the script "./configure", which determines your
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system configuration and creates several Makefiles. (It takes a
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minute or two -- please be patient!) When it's done, you are ready to
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run make. You may want to pass options to the configure script, or
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edit the Setup file -- see the section below on configuration options
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and variables.
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To build Python, you normally type "make" in the toplevel directory.
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This will recursively run make in each of the subdirectories: Grammar,
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Parser, Objects, Python and Modules, creating a library file in each
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one (except Grammar). The interpreter executable is built in the top
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level directory. If you want or need to, you can also chdir into each
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subdirectory in turn and run make there manually (do the Modules
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subdirectory last; you must use "make all sharedmods" to build the
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dynamically loadable modules, if you have any).
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Once you have built a Python interpreter, see the subsections below on
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testing, configuring additional modules, and installation. If you run
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into trouble, see the next section.
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Troubleshooting
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See also the platform specific notes in the next section.
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If recursive makes fail, try invoking make as "make MAKE=make".
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If you run into other trouble, see section 3 of the FAQ
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(http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py or
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http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html) for hints on what can go wrong,
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and how to fix it.
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If you rerun the configure script with different options, remove all
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object files by running "make clean" before rebuilding. Believe it or
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not, "make clean" sometimes helps to clean up other inexplicable
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problems as well. Try it before sending in a bug report!
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If the configure script fails or doesn't seem to find things that
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should be there, inspect the config.log file. When you fix a
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configure problem, be sure to remove config.cache!
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If you get a warning for every file about the -Olimit option being no
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longer supported, you can ignore it. There's no foolproof way to know
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whether this option is needed; all we can do is test whether it is
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accepted without error. On some systems, e.g. older SGI compilers, it
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is essential for performance (specifically when compiling ceval.c,
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which has more basic blocks than the default limit of 1000). If the
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warning bothers you, edit the Makefile to remove "-Olimit 1500" from
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the OPT variable.
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If you get failures in test_long, or sys.maxint gets set to -1, you
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are probably experiencing compiler bugs, usually related to
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optimization. This is a common problem with some versions of gcc and
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egcs, and some vendor-supplied compilers, which can sometimes be
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worked around by turning off optimization. Consider switching to
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stable versions (gcc 2.7.2.3, egcs 1.1.2, or contact your vendor.)
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From Python 2.0 onward, all Python C code is ANSI C. Compiling using
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old K&R-C-only compilers is no longer possible. ANSI C compilers are
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available for all modern systems, either in the form of updated
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compilers from the vendor, or one of the free compilers (gcc, egcs).
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Platform specific notes
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(Some of these may no longer apply. If you find you can build Python
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on these platforms without the special directions mentioned here, mail
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to <python@pythonlabs.com> so we can remove them!)
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64-bit platforms: The modules audioop, imageop and rgbimg don't work.
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Don't try to enable them in the Modules/Setup file. They
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contain code that is quite wordsize sensitive. (If you have a
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fix, let us know!)
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Solaris: When using Sun's C compiler with threads, at least on Solaris
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2.5.1, you need to add the "-mt" compiler option (the simplest
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way is probably to specify the compiler with this option as
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the "CC" environment variable when running the configure
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script).
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Linux: A problem with threads and fork() was tracked down to a bug in
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the pthreads code in glibc version 2.0.5; glibc version 2.0.7
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solves the problem. This causes the popen2 test to fail;
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problem and solution reported by Pablo Bleyer.
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Under Linux systems using GNU libc 2 (aka libc6), the crypt
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module now needs the -lcrypt option. Uncomment this flag in
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Modules/Setup, or comment out the crypt module in the same
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file. Most modern Linux systems use glibc2.
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FreeBSD 3.x and probably platforms with NCurses that use libmytinfo or
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similar: When using cursesmodule, the linking is not done in
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the correct order with the defaults. Remove "-ltermcap" from
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the readline entry in Setup, and use as curses entry: "curses
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cursesmodule.c -lmytinfo -lncurses -ltermcap" - "mytinfo" (so
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called on FreeBSD) should be the name of the auxiliary library
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required on your platform. Normally, it would be linked
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automatically, but not necessarily in the correct order.
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BSDI: BSDI versions before 4.1 have known problems with threads,
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which can cause strange errors in a number of modules (for
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instance, the 'test_signal' test script will hang forever.)
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Turning off threads (with --with-threads=no) or upgrading to
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BSDI 4.1 solves this problem.
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DEC Unix: Run configure with --with-dec-threads, or with
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--with-threads=no if no threads are desired (threads are on by
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default). When using GCC, it is possible to get an internal
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compiler error if optimization is used. This was reported for
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GCC 2.7.2.3 on selectmodule.c. Manually compile the affected
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file without optimization to solve the problem.
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DEC Ultrix: compile with GCC to avoid bugs in the native compiler,
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and pass SHELL=/bin/sh5 to Make when installing.
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AIX: A complete overhaul of the shared library support is now in
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place. See Misc/AIX-NOTES for some notes on how it's done.
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(The optimizer bug reported at this place in previous releases
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has been worked around by a minimal code change.)
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In addition, Gary Duzan has a hint for C++ users: to enable
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full C++ module support, set CC="xlC" (or CC="xlC_r" for thread
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support in AIX 4.2.1).
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HP-UX: Please read the file Misc/HPUX-NOTES for shared libraries.
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When using threading, you may have to add -D_REENTRANT to the
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2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
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OPT variable in the top-level Makefile; reported by Pat Knight,
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1999-04-12 18:16:09 +00:00
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this seems to make a difference (at least for HP-UX 10.20)
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even though config.h defines it.
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1998-05-14 15:47:35 +00:00
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1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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Minix: When using ack, use "CC=cc AR=aal RANLIB=: ./configure"!
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1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
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2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
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SCO: The following apply to SCO 3 only; Python builds out of the box
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on SCO 5 (or so we've heard).
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1998-04-13 20:14:05 +00:00
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1) Everything works much better if you add -U__STDC__ to the
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1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
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defs. This is because all the SCO header files are broken.
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1997-11-26 17:07:02 +00:00
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Anything that isn't mentioned in the C standard is
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1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
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conditionally excluded when __STDC__ is defined.
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2) Due to the U.S. export restrictions, SCO broke the crypt
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stuff out into a separate library, libcrypt_i.a so the LIBS
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needed be set to:
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LIBS=' -lsocket -lcrypt_i'
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2000-08-29 21:36:40 +00:00
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SunOS 4.x: When using the SunPro C compiler, you may want to use the
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1997-11-26 17:07:02 +00:00
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'-Xa' option instead of '-Xc', to enable some needed non-ANSI
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Sunisms.
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1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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1996-10-21 15:14:27 +00:00
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NeXT: To build fat binaries, use the --with-next-archs switch
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described below.
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1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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1997-12-02 19:44:31 +00:00
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QNX: Chris Herborth (chrish@qnx.com) writes:
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configure works best if you use GNU bash; a port is available on
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ftp.qnx.com in /usr/free. I used the following process to build,
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1998-12-22 16:37:01 +00:00
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test and install Python 1.5.x under QNX:
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1997-12-02 19:44:31 +00:00
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1998-08-04 17:59:56 +00:00
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1) CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash CC=cc RANLIB=: \
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./configure --verbose --without-gcc --with-libm=""
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1997-12-02 19:44:31 +00:00
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2) copy Modules/Setup.in to Modules/Setup; edit Modules/Setup to
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activate everything that makes sense for your system... tested
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here at QNX with the following modules:
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1998-08-11 17:31:39 +00:00
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array, audioop, binascii, cPickle, cStringIO, cmath,
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crypt, curses, errno, fcntl, gdbm, grp, imageop,
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_locale, math, md5, new, operator, parser, pcre,
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posix, pwd, readline, regex, reop, rgbimg, rotor,
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select, signal, socket, soundex, strop, struct,
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1998-12-22 16:37:01 +00:00
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syslog, termios, time, timing, zlib, audioop, imageop, rgbimg
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1997-12-02 19:44:31 +00:00
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1998-08-04 17:59:56 +00:00
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3) make SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
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or, if you feel the need for speed:
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make SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash OPT="-5 -Oil+nrt"
|
1997-12-02 19:44:31 +00:00
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1998-08-04 17:59:56 +00:00
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4) make SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash test
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1998-08-11 17:31:39 +00:00
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Using GNU readline 2.2 seems to behave strangely, but I
|
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|
|
think that's a problem with my readline 2.2 port. :-\
|
1998-08-04 17:59:56 +00:00
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5) make SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash install
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1997-12-02 19:44:31 +00:00
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1998-08-11 17:31:39 +00:00
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If you get SIGSEGVs while running Python (I haven't yet, but
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|
I've only run small programs and the test cases), you're
|
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|
probably running out of stack; the default 32k could be a
|
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|
little tight. To increase the stack size, edit the Makefile
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in the Modules directory to read: LDFLAGS = -N 48k
|
1997-08-14 19:45:30 +00:00
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1998-08-04 17:59:56 +00:00
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BeOS: Chris Herborth (chrish@qnx.com) writes:
|
|
|
|
See BeOS/README for notes about compiling/installing Python on
|
1998-08-11 17:31:39 +00:00
|
|
|
BeOS R3 or later. Note that only the PowerPC platform is
|
1998-12-22 16:37:01 +00:00
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supported for R3; both PowerPC and x86 are supported for R4.
|
1998-08-04 17:59:56 +00:00
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1997-08-20 23:50:51 +00:00
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Cray T3E: Konrad Hinsen writes:
|
1998-08-11 17:31:39 +00:00
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1) Don't use gcc. It compiles Python/graminit.c into something
|
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|
|
that the Cray assembler doesn't like. Cray's cc seems to work
|
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fine.
|
2000-08-29 21:36:40 +00:00
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|
2) Comment out modules md5 (won't compile) and audioop (will
|
1998-08-11 17:31:39 +00:00
|
|
|
crash the interpreter during the test suite).
|
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|
|
If you run the test suite, two tests will fail (rotate and
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|
|
binascii), but these are not the modules you'd expect to need
|
|
|
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on a Cray.
|
1997-08-20 23:50:51 +00:00
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|
1997-08-21 03:05:11 +00:00
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SGI: SGI's standard "make" utility (/bin/make or /usr/bin/make)
|
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|
|
does not check whether a command actually changed the file it
|
|
|
|
is supposed to build. This means that whenever you say "make"
|
|
|
|
it will redo the link step. The remedy is to use SGI's much
|
1997-10-08 05:05:28 +00:00
|
|
|
smarter "smake " utility (/usr/sbin/smake), or GNU make. If
|
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|
you set the first line of the Makefile to #!/usr/sbin/smake
|
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|
|
smake will be invoked by make (likewise for GNU make).
|
1997-08-21 03:05:11 +00:00
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|
1997-11-26 17:07:02 +00:00
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|
|
OS/2: If you are running Warp3 or Warp4 and have IBM's VisualAge C/C++
|
|
|
|
compiler installed, just change into the pc\os2vacpp directory
|
|
|
|
and type NMAKE. Threading and sockets are supported by default
|
|
|
|
in the resulting binaries of PYTHON15.DLL and PYTHON.EXE.
|
|
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|
2000-08-23 21:33:05 +00:00
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|
|
Monterey (64-bit AIX):
|
|
|
|
The current Monterey C compiler (Visual Age) uses the OBJECT_MODE={32|64}
|
|
|
|
environment variable to set the compilation mode to either 32-bit or
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
|
|
|
64-bit (32-bit mode is the default). Presumably you want 64-bit
|
|
|
|
compilation mode for this 64-bit OS. As a result you must first set
|
|
|
|
OBJECT_MODE=64 in your environment before configuring (./configure) or
|
2000-08-23 21:33:05 +00:00
|
|
|
building (make) Python on Monterey.
|
|
|
|
|
1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
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|
1998-05-12 15:29:18 +00:00
|
|
|
Configuring threads
|
|
|
|
-------------------
|
|
|
|
|
2000-08-29 21:36:40 +00:00
|
|
|
As of Python 2.0, threads are enabled by default. If you wish to
|
|
|
|
compile without threads, or if your thread support is broken, pass the
|
|
|
|
--with-threads=no switch to configure. Unfortunately, on some
|
|
|
|
platforms, additional compiler and/or linker options are required for
|
|
|
|
threads to work properly. Below is a table of those options,
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
|
|
|
collected by Bill Janssen. We would love to automate this process
|
2000-08-29 21:36:40 +00:00
|
|
|
more, but the information below is not enough to write a patch for the
|
|
|
|
configure.in file, so manual intervention is required. If you patch
|
|
|
|
the configure.in file and are confident that the patch works, please
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
|
|
|
send in the patch. (Don't bother patching the configure script itself
|
2000-08-29 21:36:40 +00:00
|
|
|
-- it is regenerated each the configure.in file changes.)
|
1998-05-12 15:29:18 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Compiler switches for threads
|
|
|
|
.............................
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
OS/Compiler/threads Switches for use with threads
|
|
|
|
(POSIX is draft 10, DCE is draft 4) (1) compile only (2) compile & link
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
SunOS 5.{1-5}/{gcc,SunPro cc}/solaris (1) -D_REENTRANT (2) -mt
|
|
|
|
SunOS 5.5/{gcc,SunPro cc}/POSIX (1) -D_REENTRANT
|
|
|
|
DEC OSF/1 3.x/cc/DCE (1) -D_REENTRANT (2) -threads
|
|
|
|
(butenhof@zko.dec.com)
|
|
|
|
Digital UNIX 4.x/cc/DCE (1) -D_REENTRANT (2) -threads
|
|
|
|
(butenhof@zko.dec.com)
|
|
|
|
Digital UNIX 4.x/cc/POSIX (1) -D_REENTRANT (2) -pthread
|
|
|
|
(butenhof@zko.dec.com)
|
|
|
|
AIX 4.1.4/cc_r/d7 (nothing)
|
|
|
|
(buhrt@iquest.net)
|
|
|
|
AIX 4.1.4/cc_r4/DCE (nothing)
|
|
|
|
(buhrt@iquest.net)
|
|
|
|
IRIX 6.2/cc/POSIX (nothing)
|
|
|
|
(robertl@cwi.nl)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Linker (ld) libraries and flags for threads
|
|
|
|
...........................................
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
OS/threads Libraries/switches for use with threads
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
SunOS 5.{1-5}/solaris -lthread
|
|
|
|
SunOS 5.5/POSIX -lpthread
|
|
|
|
DEC OSF/1 3.x/DCE -lpthreads -lmach -lc_r -lc
|
|
|
|
(butenhof@zko.dec.com)
|
|
|
|
Digital UNIX 4.x/DCE -lpthreads -lpthread -lmach -lexc -lc
|
|
|
|
(butenhof@zko.dec.com)
|
|
|
|
Digital UNIX 4.x/POSIX -lpthread -lmach -lexc -lc
|
|
|
|
(butenhof@zko.dec.com)
|
|
|
|
AIX 4.1.4/{draft7,DCE} (nothing)
|
|
|
|
(buhrt@iquest.net)
|
|
|
|
IRIX 6.2/POSIX -lpthread
|
|
|
|
(jph@emilia.engr.sgi.com)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
|
|
|
Configuring additional built-in modules
|
1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
|
|
|
---------------------------------------
|
1995-01-17 16:36:34 +00:00
|
|
|
|
1994-08-01 12:07:07 +00:00
|
|
|
You can configure the interpreter to contain fewer or more built-in
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
|
|
|
modules by editing the Modules/Setup file. This file is initially
|
1994-08-01 12:07:07 +00:00
|
|
|
copied (when the toplevel Makefile makes Modules/Makefile for the
|
|
|
|
first time) from Setup.in; if it does not exist yet, make a copy
|
|
|
|
yourself. Never edit Setup.in -- always edit Setup. Read the
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
|
|
|
comments in the file for information on what kind of edits are
|
|
|
|
allowed. When you have edited Setup, Makefile and config.c in the
|
|
|
|
Modules directory, the interpreter will automatically be rebuilt the
|
|
|
|
next time you run make in the toplevel directory. (When working
|
|
|
|
inside the Modules directory, use "make Makefile; make".)
|
1994-08-01 12:07:07 +00:00
|
|
|
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
|
|
|
The default collection of modules should build on any Unix system, but
|
|
|
|
many optional modules should work on all modern Unices (e.g. try dbm,
|
1996-08-26 03:02:37 +00:00
|
|
|
nis, termios, timing, syslog, curses, new, soundex, parser). Often
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
|
|
|
the quickest way to determine whether a particular module works or not
|
|
|
|
is to see if it will build: enable it in Setup, then if you get
|
|
|
|
compilation or link errors, disable it -- you're missing support.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On SGI IRIX, there are modules that interface to many SGI specific
|
|
|
|
system libraries, e.g. the GL library and the audio hardware.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
For SunOS and Solaris, enable module "sunaudiodev" to support the
|
2000-08-29 21:36:40 +00:00
|
|
|
audio device. Likewise, for Linux systems, enable "linuxaudiodev".
|
1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
|
|
|
|
1997-01-22 21:00:32 +00:00
|
|
|
In addition to the file Setup, you can also edit the file Setup.local.
|
|
|
|
(the makesetup script processes both). You may find it more
|
|
|
|
convenient to edit Setup.local and leave Setup alone. Then, when
|
|
|
|
installing a new Python version, you can copy your old Setup.local
|
|
|
|
file.
|
|
|
|
|
1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Setting the optimization/debugging options
|
|
|
|
------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
|
|
|
If you want or need to change the optimization/debugging options for
|
|
|
|
the C compiler, assign to the OPT variable on the toplevel make
|
|
|
|
command; e.g. "make OPT=-g" will build a debugging version of Python
|
|
|
|
on most platforms. The default is OPT=-O; a value for OPT in the
|
|
|
|
environment when the configure script is run overrides this default
|
|
|
|
(likewise for CC; and the initial value for LIBS is used as the base
|
|
|
|
set of libraries to link with).
|
1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Testing
|
|
|
|
-------
|
1994-08-01 12:07:07 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
|
|
|
To test the interpreter, type "make test" in the top-level directory.
|
1997-05-14 21:39:05 +00:00
|
|
|
This runs the test set twice (once with no compiled files, once with
|
|
|
|
the compiled files left by the previous test run). The test set
|
|
|
|
produces some output. You can generally ignore the messages about
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
|
|
|
skipped tests due to optional features which can't be imported. (If
|
|
|
|
you want to test those modules, edit Modules/Setup to configure them.)
|
|
|
|
If a message is printed about a failed test or a traceback or core
|
|
|
|
dump is produced, something is wrong. On some Linux systems (those
|
1997-12-30 04:32:30 +00:00
|
|
|
that are not yet using glibc 6), test_strftime fails due to a
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
|
|
|
non-standard implementation of strftime() in the C library. Please
|
|
|
|
ignore this, or upgrade to glibc version 6.
|
1994-08-01 12:07:07 +00:00
|
|
|
|
1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
|
|
|
IMPORTANT: If the tests fail and you decide to mail a bug report,
|
|
|
|
*don't* include the output of "make test". It is useless. Run the
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
|
|
|
failing test manually, as follows:
|
1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
|
|
|
|
1997-05-14 21:39:05 +00:00
|
|
|
python ../Lib/test/test_whatever.py
|
1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(substituting the top of the source tree for .. if you built in a
|
1997-05-14 21:39:05 +00:00
|
|
|
different directory). This runs the test in verbose mode.
|
1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Installing
|
|
|
|
----------
|
|
|
|
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
|
|
|
To install the Python binary, library modules, shared library modules
|
|
|
|
(see below), include files, configuration files, and the manual page,
|
1997-11-26 17:07:02 +00:00
|
|
|
just type
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
make install
|
|
|
|
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
|
|
|
This will install all platform-independent files in subdirectories of
|
|
|
|
the directory given with the --prefix option to configure or to the
|
|
|
|
`prefix' Make variable (default /usr/local). All binary and other
|
|
|
|
platform-specific files will be installed in subdirectories if the
|
|
|
|
directory given by --exec-prefix or the `exec_prefix' Make variable
|
|
|
|
(defaults to the --prefix directory) is given.
|
1997-11-26 17:07:02 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
All subdirectories created will have Python's version number in their
|
|
|
|
name, e.g. the library modules are installed in
|
2000-06-29 22:28:44 +00:00
|
|
|
"/usr/local/lib/python2.0/" by default. The Python binary is
|
|
|
|
installed as "python2.0" and a hard link named "python" is created.
|
1997-11-26 17:07:02 +00:00
|
|
|
The only file not installed with a version number in its name is the
|
|
|
|
manual page, installed as "/usr/local/man/man1/python.1" by default.
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
|
|
|
|
2000-06-29 22:28:44 +00:00
|
|
|
If you have a previous installation of a pre-2.0 Python that you don't
|
1997-11-26 17:07:02 +00:00
|
|
|
want to replace yet, use
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
make altinstall
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This installs the same set of files as "make install" except it
|
2000-06-29 22:28:44 +00:00
|
|
|
doesn't create the hard link to "python2.0" named "python" and it
|
1997-11-26 17:07:02 +00:00
|
|
|
doesn't install the manual page at all.
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The only thing you may have to install manually is the Python mode for
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
|
|
|
Emacs found in Misc/python-mode.el. (But then again, more recent
|
|
|
|
versions of Emacs may already have it.) Follow the instructions that
|
|
|
|
came with Emacs for installation of site-specific files.
|
1994-08-01 12:07:07 +00:00
|
|
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Configuration options and variables
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-----------------------------------
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Some special cases are handled by passing options to the configure
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script.
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1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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WARNING: if you rerun the configure script with different options, you
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must run "make clean" before rebuilding. Exceptions to this rule:
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after changing --prefix or --exec-prefix, all you need to do is remove
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Modules/getpath.o.
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--with(out)-gcc: The configure script uses gcc (the GNU C compiler) if
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it finds it. If you don't want this, or if this compiler is
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installed but broken on your platform, pass the option
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--without-gcc. You can also pass "CC=cc" (or whatever the
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name of the proper C compiler is) in the environment, but the
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advantage of using --without-gcc is that this option is
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remembered by the config.status script for its --recheck
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option.
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--prefix, --exec-prefix: If you want to install the binaries and the
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Python library somewhere else than in /usr/local/{bin,lib},
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you can pass the option --prefix=DIRECTORY; the interpreter
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binary will be installed as DIRECTORY/bin/python and the
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library files as DIRECTORY/lib/python/*. If you pass
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--exec-prefix=DIRECTORY (as well) this overrides the
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installation prefix for architecture-dependent files (like the
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interpreter binary). Note that --prefix=DIRECTORY also
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affects the default module search path (sys.path), when
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Modules/config.c is compiled. Passing make the option
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prefix=DIRECTORY (and/or exec_prefix=DIRECTORY) overrides the
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prefix set at configuration time; this may be more convenient
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than re-running the configure script if you change your mind
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about the install prefix.
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1997-08-05 21:50:20 +00:00
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--with-readline: This option is no longer supported. To use GNU
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readline, enable module "readline" in the Modules/Setup file.
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1996-06-20 14:32:08 +00:00
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2000-08-29 21:36:40 +00:00
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--with-threads: On most Unix systems, you can now use multiple
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threads, and support for this is enabled by default. To
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disable this, pass --with-threads=no. If the library required
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for threads lives in a peculiar place, you can use
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--with-thread=DIRECTORY. IMPORTANT: run "make clean" after
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changing (either enabling or disabling) this option, or you
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will get link errors! Note: for DEC Unix use
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--with-dec-threads instead.
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--with-sgi-dl: On SGI IRIX 4, dynamic loading of extension modules is
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supported by the "dl" library by Jack Jansen, which is
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ftp'able from ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/dynload/dl-1.6.tar.Z.
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This is enabled (after you've ftp'ed and compiled the dl
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library) by passing --with-sgi-dl=DIRECTORY where DIRECTORY
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is the absolute pathname of the dl library. (Don't bother on
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IRIX 5, it already has dynamic linking using SunOS style
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shared libraries.) Support for this feature is deprecated.
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--with-dl-dld: Dynamic loading of modules is rumored to be supported
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on some other systems: VAX (Ultrix), Sun3 (SunOS 3.4), Sequent
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Symmetry (Dynix), and Atari ST. This is done using a
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combination of the GNU dynamic loading package
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(ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/dynload/dl-dld-1.1.tar.Z) and an
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1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
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emulation of the SGI dl library mentioned above (the emulation
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can be found at
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1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/dynload/dld-3.2.3.tar.Z). To
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enable this, ftp and compile both libraries, then call
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configure, passing it the option
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--with-dl-dld=DL_DIRECTORY,DLD_DIRECTORY where DL_DIRECTORY is
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the absolute pathname of the dl emulation library and
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DLD_DIRECTORY is the absolute pathname of the GNU dld library.
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(Don't bother on SunOS 4 or 5, they already have dynamic
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linking using shared libraries.) Support for this feature is
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deprecated.
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--with-libm, --with-libc: It is possible to specify alternative
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versions for the Math library (default -lm) and the C library
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(default the empty string) using the options
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--with-libm=STRING and --with-libc=STRING, respectively. For
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example, if your system requires that you pass -lc_s to the C
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compiler to use the shared C library, you can pass
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--with-libc=-lc_s. These libraries are passed after all other
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libraries, the C library last.
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1996-07-30 18:05:04 +00:00
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--with-next-archs='arch1 arch2': Under NEXTSTEP, this will build
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2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
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all compiled binaries with the architectures listed. This will
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also correctly set the target architecture-specific resource
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1996-10-21 15:14:27 +00:00
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directory. (This option is not supported on other platforms.)
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1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
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2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
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--with-libs='libs': Add 'libs' to the LIBS that the python interpreter
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is linked against.
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1996-07-31 17:36:01 +00:00
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1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
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1994-08-01 12:07:07 +00:00
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Building for multiple architectures (using the VPATH feature)
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-------------------------------------------------------------
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If your file system is shared between multiple architectures, it
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usually is not necessary to make copies of the sources for each
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architecture you want to support. If the make program supports the
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VPATH feature, you can create an empty build directory for each
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architecture, and in each directory run the configure script (on the
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appropriate machine with the appropriate options). This creates the
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necessary subdirectories and the Makefiles therein. The Makefiles
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2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
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contain a line VPATH=... which points to a directory containing the
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1996-08-26 03:02:37 +00:00
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actual sources. (On SGI systems, use "smake -J1" instead of "make" if
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you use VPATH -- don't try gnumake.)
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1994-08-01 12:07:07 +00:00
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For example, the following is all you need to build a minimal Python
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in /usr/tmp/python (assuming ~guido/src/python is the toplevel
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directory and you want to build in /usr/tmp/python):
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$ mkdir /usr/tmp/python
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$ cd /usr/tmp/python
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$ ~guido/src/python/configure
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[...]
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$ make
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[...]
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$
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Note that Modules/Makefile copies the original Setup file to the build
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|
|
directory if it finds no Setup file there. This means that you can
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|
|
edit the Setup file for each architecture independently. For this
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|
reason, subsequent changes to the original Setup file are not tracked
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automatically, as they might overwrite local changes. To force a copy
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|
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of a changed original Setup file, delete the target Setup file. (The
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makesetup script supports multiple input files, so if you want to be
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|
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fancy you can change the rules to create an empty Setup.local if it
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|
|
doesn't exist and run it with arguments $(srcdir)/Setup Setup.local;
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|
|
however this assumes that you only need to add modules.)
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Building on non-UNIX systems
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|
----------------------------
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|
2000-09-19 00:38:35 +00:00
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For Windows (2000/NT/ME/98/95), assuming you have MS VC++ 6.0, the
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|
|
project files are in PCbuild, the workspace is pcbuild.dsw. See
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|
|
PCbuild\readme.txt for detailed instructions.
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1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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1999-04-12 14:47:30 +00:00
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For other non-Unix Windows compilers, in particular Windows 3.1 and
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for OS/2, enter the directory "PC" and read the file "readme.txt".
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1996-07-30 21:41:07 +00:00
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1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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For the Mac, a separate source distribution will be made available,
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for use with the CodeWarrior compiler. If you are interested in Mac
|
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|
|
development, join the PythonMac Special Interest Group
|
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|
|
(http://www.python.org/sigs/pythonmac-sig/, or send email to
|
|
|
|
pythonmac-sig-request@python.org).
|
|
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|
Of course, there are also binary distributions available for these
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
|
|
|
platforms -- see http://www.pythonlabs.com/downloads.html.
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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|
To port Python to a new non-UNIX system, you will have to fake the
|
|
|
|
effect of running the configure script manually (for Mac and PC, this
|
|
|
|
has already been done for you). A good start is to copy the file
|
1994-08-01 12:07:07 +00:00
|
|
|
config.h.in to config.h and edit the latter to reflect the actual
|
|
|
|
configuration of your system. Most symbols must simply be defined as
|
|
|
|
1 only if the corresponding feature is present and can be left alone
|
2000-07-23 21:18:09 +00:00
|
|
|
otherwise; however the *_t type symbols must be defined as some variant
|
|
|
|
of int if they need to be defined at all.
|
1994-08-01 12:07:07 +00:00
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1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
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|
Miscellaneous issues
|
|
|
|
====================
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|
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|
|
Emacs mode
|
|
|
|
----------
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|
1997-10-08 05:05:28 +00:00
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|
|
There's an excellent Emacs editing mode for Python code; see the file
|
|
|
|
Misc/python-mode.el. Originally written by the famous Tim Peters, it
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
|
|
|
is now maintained by the equally famous Barry Warsaw (it's no
|
|
|
|
coincidence that they now both work at PythonLabs). The latest
|
2000-09-01 22:50:02 +00:00
|
|
|
version, along with various other contributed Python-related Emacs
|
|
|
|
goodies, is online at <http://www.python.org/emacs/python-mode>. And
|
|
|
|
if you are planning to edit the Python C code, please pick up the
|
|
|
|
latest version of CC Mode <http://www.python.org/emacs/cc-mode>; it
|
|
|
|
contains a "python" style used throughout most of the Python C source
|
|
|
|
files. (Newer versions of Emacs or XEmacs may already come with the
|
|
|
|
latest version of python-mode.)
|
1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
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|
|
The Tk interface
|
|
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|
----------------
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|
|
Tk (the user interface component of John Ousterhout's Tcl language) is
|
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|
|
also usable from Python. Since this requires that you first build and
|
1997-10-08 05:05:28 +00:00
|
|
|
install Tcl/Tk, the Tk interface is not enabled by default. Python
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
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|
|
supports Tcl/Tk version 8.0 and higher.
|
1997-11-26 17:07:02 +00:00
|
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|
2000-07-01 00:34:39 +00:00
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|
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See http://dev.ajubasolutions.com/ for more info on Tcl/Tk, including
|
|
|
|
the on-line manual pages.
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
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|
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To enable the Python/Tk interface, once you've built and installed
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
|
|
|
Tcl/Tk, load the file Modules/Setup into your favorite text editor and
|
1997-11-26 17:07:02 +00:00
|
|
|
search for the string "_tkinter". Then follow the instructions found
|
|
|
|
there. If you have installed Tcl/Tk or X11 in unusual places, you
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
|
|
|
will have to edit the first line to fix or add the -I and -L options.
|
1997-11-26 17:07:02 +00:00
|
|
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(Also see the general instructions at the top of that file.)
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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|
2000-07-01 00:34:39 +00:00
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|
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For more Tkinter information, see the Tkinter Resource page:
|
|
|
|
http://www.python.org/topics/tkinter/
|
1997-10-08 05:05:28 +00:00
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|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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|
|
There are demos in the Demo/tkinter directory, in the subdirectories
|
|
|
|
guido, matt and www (the matt and guido subdirectories have been
|
|
|
|
overhauled to use more recent Tkinter coding conventions).
|
1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
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|
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|
|
|
Note that there's a Python module called "Tkinter" (capital T) which
|
2000-09-01 22:50:02 +00:00
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|
|
lives in Lib/lib-tk/Tkinter.py, and a C module called "_tkinter"
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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|
|
(lower case t and leading underscore) which lives in
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
|
|
|
Modules/_tkinter.c. Demos and normal Tk applications import only the
|
|
|
|
Python Tkinter module -- the latter uses the C _tkinter module
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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|
|
directly. In order to find the C _tkinter module, it must be compiled
|
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|
|
and linked into the Python interpreter -- the _tkinter line in the
|
|
|
|
Setup file does this. In order to find the Python Tkinter module,
|
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|
|
sys.path must be set correctly -- the TKPATH assignment in the Setup
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|
|
file takes care of this, but only if you install Python properly
|
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|
|
("make install libinstall"). (You can also use dynamic loading for
|
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|
|
the C _tkinter module, in which case you must manually fix up sys.path
|
|
|
|
or set $PYTHONPATH for the Python Tkinter module.)
|
1995-08-28 02:44:24 +00:00
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1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
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1994-08-01 12:07:07 +00:00
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Distribution structure
|
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|
----------------------
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2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
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Most subdirectories have their own README files. Most files have
|
1994-08-01 12:07:07 +00:00
|
|
|
comments.
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|
2000-09-01 22:50:02 +00:00
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|
|
.cvsignore Additional filename matching patterns for CVS to ignore
|
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|
BeOS/ Files specific to the BeOS port
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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Demo/ Demonstration scripts, modules and programs
|
2000-09-01 22:50:02 +00:00
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Doc/ Documentation sources (LaTeX)
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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Grammar/ Input for the parser generator
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Include/ Public header files
|
2000-09-01 22:50:02 +00:00
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|
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LICENSE Licensing information
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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Lib/ Python library modules
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
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Makefile.in Source from which config.status creates the Makefile
|
1997-10-08 05:05:28 +00:00
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|
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Misc/ Miscellaneous useful files
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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Modules/ Implementation of most built-in modules
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Objects/ Implementation of most built-in object types
|
2000-09-01 22:50:02 +00:00
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PC/ Files specific to PC ports (DOS, Windows, OS/2)
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PCbuild/ Build directory for Microsoft Visual C++
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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|
Parser/ The parser and tokenizer and their input handling
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
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Python/ The byte-compiler and interpreter
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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|
|
README The file you're reading now
|
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|
Tools/ Some useful programs written in Python
|
2000-09-01 22:50:02 +00:00
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|
|
acconfig.h Additional input for the GNU autoheader program
|
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|
config.h.in Source from which config.h is created (GNU autoheader output)
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
|
|
|
configure Configuration shell script (GNU autoconf output)
|
2000-09-01 22:50:02 +00:00
|
|
|
configure.in Configuration specification (input for GNU autoconf)
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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|
|
install-sh Shell script used to install files
|
1994-08-01 12:07:07 +00:00
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|
1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
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The following files will (may) be created in the toplevel directory by
|
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|
|
the configuration and build processes:
|
1994-08-01 12:07:07 +00:00
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|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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|
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Makefile Build rules
|
2000-09-01 22:50:02 +00:00
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buildno Keeps track of the build number
|
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config.cache Cache of configuration variables
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
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config.h Configuration header
|
1997-10-08 05:05:28 +00:00
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config.log Log from last configure run
|
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
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config.status Status from last run of the configure script
|
2000-09-01 22:50:02 +00:00
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getbuildinfo.o Object file from Modules/getbuildinfo.c
|
2000-06-29 22:28:44 +00:00
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|
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libpython2.0.a The library archive
|
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
|
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python The executable interpreter
|
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tags, TAGS Tags files for vi and Emacs
|
1994-08-01 12:07:07 +00:00
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1994-08-12 12:45:02 +00:00
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2000-09-01 22:50:02 +00:00
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That's all, folks!
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------------------
|
1994-08-01 12:07:07 +00:00
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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)
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