Python for BeOS R5

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

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

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

To build,

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

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

   3)  make

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

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

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

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

dynamically loaded Python module.

Test:

   make test

   The BeOS is Not UNIX category:

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

 - test_socket crashed -- exceptions.AttributeError : SOCK_RAW

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

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

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

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

       No space left on device

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

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

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

Install:

   make install

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

to exist!)