Merge last minute 2.2c1 changes from branch to trunk.
diff --git a/README b/README
index 07c9692..17e64e8 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -85,6 +85,11 @@
LaTeX formats; the LaTeX version is primarily for documentation
authors, translators, and people with special formatting requirements.
+The best documentation for the new (in Python 2.2) type/class unification
+features is Guido's tutorial introduction, at
+
+ http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html
+
Web sites
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@@ -394,22 +399,24 @@
Mac OS X 10: One of the regular expression tests fails
with a SEGV due to the small stack size used by default, if you do
"limit stacksize 2048" before "make test" it should work.
-
+
On naked Darwin you may want to add the configure option
"--disable-toolbox-glue" to disable the glue code for the Carbon
interface modules. The modules themselves are currently only built
if you add the --enable-framework option, see below.
-
- On a clean OSX /usr/local does not exist. Do a "sudo mkdir -m 775 /usr/local"
+
+ On a clean OSX /usr/local does not exist. Do a
+ "sudo mkdir -m 775 /usr/local"
before you do a make install. Alternatively, do "sudo make install"
which installs everything as superuser.
-
- You may want to try the configure option "--enable-framework" which
- installs Python as a framework. The location can be set as argument
- to the --enable-framework option (default /Library/Frameworks). You may
- also want to check out ./Mac/OSX for building a Python.app. You may also
- want to manually install a symlink in /usr/local/bin/python to the
- executable deep down in the framework.
+
+ You may want to try the configure option "--enable-framework"
+ which installs Python as a framework. The location can be set
+ as argument to the --enable-framework option (default
+ /Library/Frameworks). You may also want to check out ./Mac/OSX
+ for building a Python.app. You may also want to manually
+ install a symlink in /usr/local/bin/python to the executable
+ deep down in the framework.
Cygwin: With recent (relative to the time of writing, 2001-12-11)
Cygwin installations, Python builds and passes all tests on
@@ -826,6 +833,11 @@
otherwise; however the *_t type symbols must be defined as some variant
of int if they need to be defined at all.
+For all platforms, it's important that the build arrange to define the
+preprocessor symbol NDEBUG on the compiler command line in a release
+build of Python (else assert() calls remain in the code, hurting
+release-build performance). The Unix, Windows and Mac builds already
+do this.
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