Remove outdated information. Merge now dead BeOS/README-readline. I'm not
sure if that information is still relevant though.
diff --git a/Misc/BeOS-NOTES b/Misc/BeOS-NOTES
index 90013ee..0424c4f 100644
--- a/Misc/BeOS-NOTES
+++ b/Misc/BeOS-NOTES
@@ -1,30 +1,5 @@
Python for BeOS R5
-This directory contains several useful things to help you build your own
-version of Python for BeOS.
-
-What's Here?
-
-ar-fake - A shell script that copies around .o files, for the as much
- of the general effect of ar as we need but more fool-proof.
- It also has an "so" command to build the shared library
- that we actually install and use.
-
-linkmodule - A shell script used by the build process to build the
- shared library versions of the standard modules; you'll
- probably need this if you want to build dynamically loaded
- modules from the Python archives.
-
-README - This file (obviously!).
-
-README.readline-2.2 - Instructions for compiling/installing GNU readline 2.2.
- You'll have to grab the GNU readline source code from
- prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/GNU or any other GNU mirror.
-
- The Python interpreter is much nicer to work with
- interactively if you've got readline installed. Highly
- recommended.
-
To build,
1) ./configure --prefix=/boot/home/config
@@ -84,6 +59,67 @@
make install
+
+Using GNU readline:
+
+ The Python interpreter is much nicer to work with interactively if
+ you've got readline installed. Highly recommended.
+
+ You can get the original GNU readline 2.2 source code from your
+ favourite GNU software repository, such as
+ ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/.
+
+ You can get the only-slightly-modified-for-BeOS version of GNU
+ readline 2.2 from the GeekGadgets repository;
+ ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/geekgadgets/.
+
+
+Building libreadline for BeOS hosts:
+
+ Note that we don't build a shared library version of libreadline and
+ libhistory. That's left as an exercise for the reader.
+
+ You won't be able to link against libreadline.a using the limited
+ linker.
+
+ 1) If you're on a PowerPC system, install the POSIX ar from
+ http://www.qnx.com/~chrish/Be/software/index.html#programming
+ (note that it's currently packaged with Python, in the BeOS/ar-1.1
+ directory).
+
+ If you're on an x86 system, you can leave out the "AR=ar-posix"
+ part of the following instructions. In fact, you'll have to...
+
+ 2) For PowerPC, configure with:
+
+ CC=mwcc CFLAGS="-O7 -i- -I." AR=ar-posix RANLIB=: ./configure --verbose \
+ --without-gcc --prefix=/boot/home/config powerpc-*-beos
+
+ For x86, configure with:
+
+ CC=mwcc CFLAGS="-O2 -i- -I." RANLIB=: ./configure --verbose \
+ --without-gcc --prefix=/boot/home/config x86-*-beos
+
+ Don't worry about the warnings/errors configure spews for
+ powerpc-*-beos or x86-*-beos; readline doesn't actually use this host
+ information for anything, although configure will die if you don't
+ specify it.
+
+ 3) Edit config.h to comment out "#define HAVE_SELECT 1"; select() on
+ BeOS doesn't work on file descriptors (such as stdin).
+
+ 4) For PowerPC, make with:
+
+ make AR=ar-posix
+
+ For x86, make with:
+
+ make
+
+ 5) Install with:
+
+ make install
+
Enjoy!
- Chris Herborth (chrish@pobox.com)