misc stuff
diff --git a/Misc/FAQ b/Misc/FAQ
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@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu
Archive-name: python-faq/part1
-Version: 1.15
-Last-modified: 6 October 1994
+Version: 1.16
+Last-modified: 11 November 1994
This article contains answers to Frequently Asked Questions about
Python (an object-oriented interpreted programming language -- see
@@ -91,17 +91,20 @@
3.2. Q. When running the test set, I get complaints about floating point
operations, but when playing with floating point operations I cannot
find anything wrong with them.
- 3.3. Q. Link errors building Python with STDWIN on SGI IRIX.
- 3.4. Q. Link errors after rerunning the configure script.
- 3.5. Q. The python interpreter complains about options passed to a
+ 3.3. Q. Link errors building Python with STDWIN 0.9.8. on SGI IRIX.
+ 3.4. Q. Link errors building Python with STDWIN 0.9.9.
+ 3.5. Q. Link errors after rerunning the configure script.
+ 3.6. Q. The python interpreter complains about options passed to a
script (after the script name).
- 3.6. Q. When building on the SGI, make tries to run python to create
+ 3.7. Q. When building on the SGI, make tries to run python to create
glmodule.c, but python hasn't been built or installed yet.
- 3.7. Q. Python built with gcc for the DEC Alpha doesn't work.
- 3.8. Q. I use VPATH but some targets are built in the source directory.
- 3.9. Q. Trouble building or linking with the GNU readline library.
- 3.10. Q. Trouble building Python on Linux.
- 3.11. Q. Other trouble building Python on platform X.
+ 3.8. Q. Python built with gcc for the DEC Alpha doesn't work.
+ 3.9. Q. I use VPATH but some targets are built in the source directory.
+ 3.10. Q. Trouble building or linking with the GNU readline library.
+ 3.11. Q. Trouble building Python on Linux.
+ 3.12. Q. Trouble with prototypes on Ultrix.
+ 3.13. Q. Trouble with posix.listdir on NeXTSTEP 3.2.
+ 3.14. Q. Other trouble building Python on platform X.
4. Programming in Python
4.1. Q. Is there a source code level debugger with breakpoints, step,
@@ -482,7 +485,7 @@
A. Get STDWIN 0.9.9 from ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/stdwin/stdwin0.9.9.tar.gz.
-Q. Link errors building Python with STDWIN 0.9.9.
+3.4. Q. Link errors building Python with STDWIN 0.9.9.
A. Probably routines liek 'tereate', 'tenew' etc. The STDWIN 0.9.9
distribution requires that you add TWO libraries from stdwin to the
@@ -491,12 +494,12 @@
stdwin stdwinmodule.c -I$(STDWIN)/H $(STDWIN)/Packs/textedit/libtextedit.a $(STDWIN)/Ports/x11/libstdwin.a -lX11
-3.4. Q. Link errors after rerunning the configure script.
+3.5. Q. Link errors after rerunning the configure script.
A. It is generally necessary to run "make clean" after a configuration
change.
-3.5. Q. The python interpreter complains about options passed to a
+3.6. Q. The python interpreter complains about options passed to a
script (after the script name).
A. You are probably linking with GNU getopt, e.g. through -liberty.
@@ -511,7 +514,7 @@
python -- script.py [options]
-3.6. Q. When building on the SGI, make tries to run python to create
+3.7. Q. When building on the SGI, make tries to run python to create
glmodule.c, but python hasn't been built or installed yet.
A. Comment out the line mentioning glmodule.c in Setup and build a
@@ -521,7 +524,7 @@
Makefile" in the Modules subdirectory (or just run "make" at the
toplevel).
-3.7. Q. Python built with gcc for the DEC Alpha doesn't work.
+3.8. Q. Python built with gcc for the DEC Alpha doesn't work.
People have reported problems with both gcc 2.5.8 and 2.6.0. The DEC
OSF/1 cc compiler does not have these problems so it's probably gcc's
@@ -529,14 +532,14 @@
instead of -O so this may be an option if you insist on using gcc. If
someone tracks it down more completely I'd like to hear about it!
-3.8. Q. I use VPATH but some targets are built in the source directory.
+3.9. Q. I use VPATH but some targets are built in the source directory.
A. On some systems (e.g. Sun), if the target already exists in the
source directory, it is created there instead of in the build
directory. This is usually because you have previously built without
VPATH. Try running "make clobber" in the source directory.
-3.9. Q. Trouble building or linking with the GNU readline library.
+3.10. Q. Trouble building or linking with the GNU readline library.
A. Consider using readline 2.0. From the Python 1.1 README:
@@ -578,18 +581,37 @@
readline library (I don't get this group here but I've been told
that it is the place for readline bugs.)
-3.10. Q. Trouble building Python on Linux.
+3.11. Q. Trouble building Python on Linux.
A. There shouldn't be any -- I've seen several complaints but more
reports on successful "out-of-the-box" ports on Linux. The standard
configure script runs just fine on Linux.
-Q. Trouble with prototypes on Ultrix.
+3.12. Q. Trouble with prototypes on Ultrix.
A. Ultrix cc seems broken -- use gcc, or edit config.h to #undef
HAVE_PROTOTYPES.
-3.11. Q. Other trouble building Python on platform X.
+3.13. Q. Trouble with posix.listdir on NeXTSTEP 3.2.
+
+A. The problem seems to be that that the NeXT posix library and the
+NeXT dynamic loading library are incompatible. Mike Carlton reports
+that the following worked for him (from a clean 1.1 distribution):
+
+ 1) ./configure
+ 2) edited config.status and changed
+ OPT='-O'
+ to
+ OPT='-posix -O'
+ 3) edited Python/import.c and commented out the section
+ #if defined(NeXT) || defined(WITH_RLD)
+ #define DYNAMIC_LINK
+ #define USE_RLD
+ #endif
+ this disables dynamic loading
+ 4) make
+
+3.14. Q. Other trouble building Python on platform X.
A. Please email the details to <guido@cwi.nl> and I'll look into it.