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Archive-name: python-faq/part1
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Version: 1.15
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Last-modified: 6 October 1994
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Version: 1.16
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Last-modified: 11 November 1994
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This article contains answers to Frequently Asked Questions about
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Python (an object-oriented interpreted programming language -- see
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3.2. Q. When running the test set, I get complaints about floating point
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operations, but when playing with floating point operations I cannot
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find anything wrong with them.
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3.3. Q. Link errors building Python with STDWIN on SGI IRIX.
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3.4. Q. Link errors after rerunning the configure script.
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3.5. Q. The python interpreter complains about options passed to a
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3.3. Q. Link errors building Python with STDWIN 0.9.8. on SGI IRIX.
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3.4. Q. Link errors building Python with STDWIN 0.9.9.
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3.5. Q. Link errors after rerunning the configure script.
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3.6. Q. The python interpreter complains about options passed to a
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script (after the script name).
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3.6. Q. When building on the SGI, make tries to run python to create
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3.7. Q. When building on the SGI, make tries to run python to create
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glmodule.c, but python hasn't been built or installed yet.
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3.7. Q. Python built with gcc for the DEC Alpha doesn't work.
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3.8. Q. I use VPATH but some targets are built in the source directory.
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3.9. Q. Trouble building or linking with the GNU readline library.
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3.10. Q. Trouble building Python on Linux.
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3.11. Q. Other trouble building Python on platform X.
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3.8. Q. Python built with gcc for the DEC Alpha doesn't work.
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3.9. Q. I use VPATH but some targets are built in the source directory.
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3.10. Q. Trouble building or linking with the GNU readline library.
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3.11. Q. Trouble building Python on Linux.
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3.12. Q. Trouble with prototypes on Ultrix.
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3.13. Q. Trouble with posix.listdir on NeXTSTEP 3.2.
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3.14. Q. Other trouble building Python on platform X.
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4. Programming in Python
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4.1. Q. Is there a source code level debugger with breakpoints, step,
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Q. Link errors building Python with STDWIN 0.9.9.
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3.4. Q. Link errors building Python with STDWIN 0.9.9.
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3.4. Q. Link errors after rerunning the configure script.
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3.5. Q. Link errors after rerunning the configure script.
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A. It is generally necessary to run "make clean" after a configuration
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3.5. Q. The python interpreter complains about options passed to a
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3.6. Q. The python interpreter complains about options passed to a
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3.7. Q. When building on the SGI, make tries to run python to create
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3.8. Q. Python built with gcc for the DEC Alpha doesn't work.
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OSF/1 cc compiler does not have these problems so it's probably gcc's
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fault. One person reported that the problem went away when using -g
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instead of -O so this may be an option if you insist on using gcc. If
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someone tracks it down more completely I'd like to hear about it!
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source directory, it is created there instead of in the build
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directory. This is usually because you have previously built without
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3.10. Q. Trouble building or linking with the GNU readline library.
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3.11. Q. Trouble building Python on Linux.
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NeXT dynamic loading library are incompatible. Mike Carlton reports
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