[Python-Dev] Minix? (original) (raw)

Thomas Heller theller@python.net
12 Nov 2002 12:05:44 +0100

Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

I was perusing the README file looking for clues why I'm suddenly unable to build on MacOSX when I noticed a platform note about Minix:

Minix: When using ack, use "CC=cc AR=aal RANLIB=: ./configure"! I find it hard to believe Python actually still builds on Minix. On the other hand, I don't see it mentioned in PEP 11.

Offtopic: When I used minix, I wasn't aware of Python.

And minix (the version I had) stopped working on recent PC's because there was a bug in the memory size calculation. The memory size was calculated modulo 16 MB, so it always complains that no memory was found. Funny!

Thomas