Python for BeOS R5 In Python-2.1, the standard version of the new setup.py programwill 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 flagswe don't have.  Put a libreadline.a in /boot/home/config/lib to geta readline.so for your interactive editing convenience;  NB, notlibreadline.so, you want to link a static readline library into thedynamically 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  - Donn Cave (donn@oz.net)  October 4, 2000