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Darwin/MacOSX Python 2.0b2 with shared libs.

Steven D. Majewski sdm7g at virginia.edu
Thu Oct 5 14:53:04 EDT 2000 
Thanks to Tony Lownds, his patches at: http://tony.lownds.com/macosx/,
and discussions between he and Martin v. Loewis on pythonmac-sig,
building with dynamic shared modules on Darwin/MacOSX now works. 
( The install scripts are still severely broken -- build and install
  targets don't seem to agree about what platform this is! ) 

Another problem with case indifference proped up with FCNTL.py vs.
fcntlmodule.so -- the solution here, I think, is to move fcntlmodule
up above the *shared* marker in Modules/Setup so that it is builtin,
and both FCNTL and fcntl will import as the appropriate and different
modules. 

Adding 'darwin1.2' to test_fcntl.py among the other bsd's where it 
belongs will get it thru that test successfully. ( Otherwise, it 
falls thru to the default case and gets an invalid arg. error. ) 


make test is now only failing on 3 tests:
 test_format, test_largefile, & test_unicodedata. 

test_format is failing on a unicode string so maybe it's the same 
bug as test_unicodedata. 


I vaguely recall someone saying this was a bug fixed in CVS, but 
I couldn't manage to dig out that message. ( BTW: Is there someway
to get SourceForge to sort reverse order ? It shows bugs starting
with July, and I don't see any way to skip to the tail of the list --
just  a 'next 50' button. ) 



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