Add attributions to Jeffrey Ollie and Tim Peters for re.py; new QNX

section from Chris Herborth.

diff --git a/README b/README
index e39d01514bf52a3de48656710eb95d48abb81516..20b0741c7ddd30faf1371eea646f249ed2733c8f 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ Misc/NEWS.  Some highlights:
 
   - The new "re" module (Perl style regular expressions) is here.  It
   is based on Philip Hazel's pcre code; the Python interfaces were put
-  together by Andrew Kuchling.  The regex module is declared obsolete.
+  together by Andrew Kuchling, Tim Peters and Jeffrey Ollie.  The
+  regex module is declared obsolete.
 
   - In support of the re module, a new form of string literals is
   introduced, "raw strings": e.g. r"\n" is equal to "\\n".
@@ -306,9 +307,37 @@ SunOS 4.x: When using the standard "cc" compiler, certain modules may
 NeXT:   To build fat binaries, use the --with-next-archs switch
        described below.
 
-QNX:   Edit the top level Makefile to use the following compile options:
-       OPT = -Ox -Q -U_M_IX86 -U__WATCOMC__
-       Edit the Makefile in the Modules directory to read:
+QNX:   Chris Herborth (chrish@qnx.com) writes:
+       configure works best if you use GNU bash; a port is available on
+       ftp.qnx.com in /usr/free.  I used the following process to build,
+       test and install Python 1.5 under QNX:
+
+       1) SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash CC=cc CFLAGS=-5 -O RANLIB=: \
+           bash ./configure --verbose --without-gcc --with-libm=""
+
+       2) copy Modules/Setup.in to Modules/Setup; edit Modules/Setup to
+          activate everything that makes sense for your system... tested
+          here at QNX with the following modules:
+
+               regex reop pcre posix signal readline array cmath math strop
+               struct time operator _locale fcntl pwd grp crypt select socket
+               errno termios audioop imageop rgbimg md5 timing rotor syslog
+               new gdbm soundex binascii parser cStringIO cPickle zlib
+
+       3) SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash make SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
+
+       4) SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash make SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash test
+
+          The socket, strftime and possibly gdbm tests might fail in the
+          test harness; going through them by hand shows that they work.
+          A good exercise for the reader: make these work "out of the box".
+
+       5) SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash make SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash install
+
+       If you get SIGSEGVs while running Python (I haven't yet, but I've
+       only run small programs and the test cases), you're probably running
+       out of stack; the default 32k could be a little tight.  To increase
+       the stack size, edit the Makefile in the Modules directory to read:
        LDFLAGS = -N 48k
 
 Cray T3E: Konrad Hinsen writes: