Patch #488073: AtheOS port.
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+Python for AtheOS
+
+
+Before building:
+
+ Make sure you have shared versions of the libraries you want to use
+ with Python. You will have to compile them yourself, or download
+ precompiled packages.
+
+ Recommended libraries:
+
+ ncurses-4.2
+ readline-4.2a
+ zlib-1.1.4
+
+Build:
+
+ $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/python
+ $ make
+
+ Python is always built as a shared library, otherwise dynamic loading
+ would not work.
+
+Testing:
+
+ $ make test
+
+Install:
+
+ # make install
+ # pkgmanager -a /usr/python
+
+
+AtheOS issues:
+
+ - large file support: due to a stdio bug in glibc/libio, access to
+ large files may not work correctly.
+ fseeko() tries to seek to a negative offset.
+ ftello() returns a negative offset, it looks like a 32->64bit
+ sign-extension issue.
+ The lowlevel functions (open, lseek, etc) are OK.
+ - sockets: AF_UNIX is defined in the C library and in Python, but
+ not implemented in the system.
+ - select: poll is available in the C library, but does not work
+ (It does not return POLLNVAL for bad fds and hangs).
+ - posix: statvfs and fstatvfs always return ENOSYS.
+ -
+ - disabled modules:
+ - mmap: not yet implemented in AtheOS
+ - nis: broken (on an unconfigured system yp_get_default_domain()
+ returns junk instead of error)
+ - dl: dynamic loading doesn't work via dlopen()
+ - resource: getrimit and setrlimit are not yet implemented
+
+ - if you are getting segmentation faults, you probably are low on memory.
+ AtheOS doesn't handle very well an out-of-memory condition and
+ simply SEGVs the process.
+
+Tested on:
+
+ AtheOS-0.3.7
+ gcc-2.95
+ binutils-2.10
+ make-3.78
+
+
+--
+Octavian Cerna <tavy@ylabs.com>