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This is an ALPHA release of Python 1.0 for UNIX. Currently it builds Python release 1.0.3
a rather minimal executable and requires that you already have Python ====================
0.9.9 (or at least its library).
Instructions for building: ==> This is patch number 3 to Python 1.0, bumping its version string
to 1.0.3. It consists almost entirely of essential bug fixes to
the C sources. See the file Misc/NEWS for a description of what's
new in this patch (as well as what's new in 1.0).
(1) Run the configure shell script: ==> Python 1.0 is the first "official" Python release in more than
half a year. It's significantly improved over version 0.9.9, both
at the functionality level and (especially) in portability of the
source -- you should now be able to configure build this without
manual intervention on almost any type of Unix system. It is
known to work at least on IRIX 4 and 5, SunOS 4, Solaris 2, HP-UX,
Ultrix, OSF/1, AIX, SCO ODT 3.0, Minix, Linux, SEQUENT, and
through the use of automatic feature detection should work on most
other Unix flavors as well. Binaries are available for Macintosh
and PC platforms (for DOS, DOS w/ 32-bit extender, Windows, and
Windows NT).
./configure ==> If you don't know yet what Python is: it's an interpreted,
extensible, embeddable, interactive, object-oriented programming
language. For a quick summary of what Python can mean for a
UNIX/C programmer, read Misc/BLURB.LUTZ.
This may take a minute or two -- it does a rather thorough ==> If you want to start compiling right away: just type "./configure"
investigation of your system to find out many compile-time flags. It in the current directory and when it finishes, type "make". See
prints messages but does not ask questions. When finished, it will the section Build Instructions below for more details.
create config.status in the current directory, as well as Makefile in
each of the subdirectories Parser, Objects and Python. Note that
unless you have the CC shell environment variable set to the name of
your C compiler, it will attempt to find the GNU C compiler (gcc) and
use it if it finds it. On some systems a broken gcc may be installed;
put CC=cc in the environment to override it. On some systems it may
be interesting to compare both compilers. (Note: the Makefile has
been rigged in such a way that it will run configure if you haven't
done so.)
(2) Run Make: ==> All documentation is in the subdirectory Doc in the form of LaTeX
files. In order of importance for new users: Tutorial (tut),
Library Reference (lib), Language Reference (ref), Extending
(ext). Note that especially the Library Reference is of immense
value since much of Python's power (including the built-in data
types and functions!) is described there. [XXX The ext document
has not been updated to reflect this release yet.]
make ==> Python is COPYRIGHTED but free to use for all. See the copyright
notice at the end of this file.
This will recursively run Make in each of the Parser, Grammar, Objects
and Python subdirectories. In Parser it builds an executable "pgen"
and a library libParser.a. In Grammar it runs Parser/pgen to generate
graminit.[ch] which are copied to Includes and Python, respectively.
In Objects it builds a library libObjects.a. In Python it builds a
library libPython.a and an executable "python".
(3) Test the resulting executable: Build instructions
------------------
Python/python -c 'import testall' Before you start building Python, you must first configure it. This
entails (at least) running the script "./configure", which figures out
your system configuration and creates several Makefiles. (This will
take a minute or two -- please be patient!) When it is done, you are
ready to run make. Typing "make" in the toplevel directory will
recursively run make in each of the subdirectories Parser, Objects,
Python and Modules, creating a library file in each one. The
executable of the interpreter is built in the Modules subdirectory but
moved up here when it is built. If you want or need to, you can also
chdir into each subdirectory in turn and run make there manually
(do the Modules subdirectory last!). If you run into trouble, first
see the section Troubleshooting later in this file.
For now, this will assume that you have a working version of Python EXCEPTIONS: on SVR4 derived systems, you need to pass the configure
release 0.9.9 installed in /usr/local (it uses the Python library from script the option --with-svr4. See below for more options you can
/usr/local/lib/python) or that your PYTHONPATH shell environment pass to the configure script.
variable points to the 0.9.9 Python library.
(4) Optionally: read Extensions/README and try to build a Python with AIX users: read the file Misc/AIX-NOTES before trying to build.
all the extensions that make sense on your system. (Note: some
extensions are not supported yet.)
(5) Give feedback: Minix users: when using ack, use "CC=cc AR=aal RANLIB=: ./configure"!
Mail guido@cwi.nl You can configure the interpreter to contain fewer or more built-in
modules by editing the file Modules/Setup. This file is initially
copied (when the toplevel Makefile makes Modules/Makefile for the
first time) from Setup.in; if it does not exist yet, make a copy
yourself. Never edit Setup.in -- always edit Setup. Read the
comments in the file for information on what kind of edits you can
make. When you have edited Setup, Makefile and config.c in Modules
will automatically be rebuilt the next time you run make in the
toplevel directory. (There are some example Setup files which you may
copy to Setup for specific systems; have a look at Setup.*.)
Please tell me whether the build succeeded or not. If you needed to If you want to change the optimization level of the build, assign to
edit *any* file, tell me which file, why and how (send me a diff or a the OPT variable on the toplevel make command; e.g. "make OPT=-g" will
copy of the modified file if you can). If you get stuck, please send build a debugging version of Python on most platforms.
me the error output. Don't forget to mention the operating system,
compiler and hardware version that you used, e.g. "Solaris 2.2 with To test the interpreter that you have just built, type "make test".
gcc version cygnus-2.0.2 on a dual processor Sparcstation 10" or "IRIX This runs the test set silently, twice (once with no compiled files,
5.1 with standard cc on an Indigo XS-24 with R4000 CPU". If you can once with the compiled files left by the previous test run). Each
build the core interpreter but get stuck building an extended version, test run should print "All tests OK." and nothing more. (The test set
let me know which extensions gave problems and how. does not test the built-in modules, but will find most other problems
with the interpreter.)
To install the interpreter as /usr/local/bin/python, type "make
install". To install the library as /usr/local/lib/python, type "make
libinstall". To install the manual page as
/usr/local/man/man1/python.1, type "make maninstall". To install the
Emacs editing mode for python, manually copy the file
Misc/python-mode.el to your local Emacs lisp directory. The directory
/usr/local can be overridden at configuration time by passing
--prefix=DIRECTORY to the configure script, or at make time by passing
"prefix=DIRECTORY" to make. See below for more information on --prefix.
If you plan to do development of extension modules or to embed Python
in another application and don't want to reference the original source
tree, you can type "make inclinstall" and "make libainstall" to
install the include files and lib*.a files, respectively, as
/usr/local/include/Py/*.h and /usr/local/lib/python/lib/lib*.a. The
make libainstall target also installs copies of several other files
used or produced during the build process which are needed to build
extensions or to generate their Makefiles.
To print the documentation, cd into the Doc subdirectory, type "make"
(let's hope you have LaTeX installed!), and send the four resulting
PostScript files (tut.ps, lib.ps, ref.ps, and ext.ps) to the printer.
See the README file there; you can also build a texinfo version of the
library manual and from that construct an Emacs info version (the
hypertext format used by the Emacs "info" command) and an HTML version
(the hypertext format used by the World Wide Web distributed
information initiative). You don't need to have LaTeX installed for
this. Note that the Python archive sites also carry the resulting
PostScript files, in case you have a PostScript printer but not LaTeX.
Some special cases are handled by passing environment variables or
options to the configure script:
- The configure script uses gcc (the GNU C compiler) if it finds it.
If you don't want this, or if this compiler is installed but broken on
your platform, pass "CC=cc" (or whatever the name of the proper C
compiler is) in the environment.
- On System V, Release 4 derived systems (e.g. SOLARIS 2, but not
IRIX 5) you need to call the configure script with the option
--with-svr4. This is needed so the libraries -lnsl and -lsocket are
found. (On some other systems, e.g. IRIX 5, these libraries exist but
are incompatible with other system libraries such as X11 and GL.)
- If you want to install the binaries and the Python library somewhere
else than in /usr/local/{bin,lib}, you can pass the option
--prefix=DIRECTORY; the interpreter binary will be installed as
DIRECTORY/bin/python and the library files as DIRECTORY/lib/python/*.
If you pass --exec-prefix=DIRECTORY (as well) this overrides the
installation prefix for architecture-dependent files (like the
interpreter binary). Note that --prefix=DIRECTORY also affects the
default module search path (sys.path), when Modules/config.c is
compiled. Passing make the option prefix=DIRECTORY (and/or
exec_prefix=DIRECTORY) overrides the prefix set at configuration time;
this may be more convenient than re-running the configure script if
you change your mind about the install prefix...
- You can use the GNU readline library to improve the interactive
user interface: this gives you line editing and command history when
calling python interactively. You need to build the GNU readline
library before running the configure script. Its sources are
distributed with Python. This may involve some editing of the
Makefile there -- I'm sorry, but I don't feel responsible for making
it more portable or adapting it to autoconf... Pass the configure
script the option --with-readline=DIRECTORY where DIRECTORY is the
absolute pathname of the directory where you've built the readline
library. A known problem with the readline library is that it
contains entry points which cause conflicts with the STDWIN and SGI GL
libraries. The stdwin conflict can be solved (and will be, in some
future release of stdwin) by adding a line saying '#define werase
w_erase' to the stdwin.h file (in the stdwin distribution,
subdirectory H). The GL conflict may be solvable by reordering the -l
options on the final link command, but it appears unsafe... Another
hint: you may have to add -Dindex=strchr -Drindex=strrchr to
readline's CFLAGS if your system doesn't have index and rindex.
- On SGI IRIX, and on Sun SOLARIS 2, you can use multiple threads. To
enable this, pass --with-thread. In the Modules/Setup file, enable
the thread module. (Threads aren't enabled automatically because
there are run-time penalties when support for them is compiled in even
if you don't use them.)
- On SGI IRIX, there are modules that interface to many SGI specific
system libraries, e.g. the GL library and the audio hardware. To
enable these modules, you must edit the Modules/Setup file (or copy the
Setup.irix4 file to it).
- On SGI IRIX 4, dynamic loading of extension modules is supported by
the "dl" library by Jack Jansen, which is ftp'able from
ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/dynload/dl-1.6.tar.Z. This is enabled (after
you've ftp'ed and compiled the dl library!) by passing
--with-sgi-dl=DIRECTORY where DIRECTORY is the absolute pathname of
the dl library. (Don't bother on IRIX 5, it already has dynamic
linking using SunOS style shared libraries.)
- Dynamic loading of modules is rumoured to be supported on some other
systems: VAX (Ultrix), Sun3 (SunOS 3.4), Sequent Symmetry (Dynix), and
Atari ST. This is done using a combination of the GNU dynamic loading
package (ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/dynload/dl-dld-1.1.tar.Z) and an
emulation of the SGI dl library mentioned above (the emulation can be
found at ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/dynload/dld-3.2.3.tar.Z). To enable
this, ftp and compile both libraries, then call the configure passing
it the option --with-dl-dld=DL_DIRECTORY,DLD_DIRECTORY where
DL_DIRECTORY is the absolute pathname of the dl emulation library and
DLD_DIRECTORY is the absolute pathname of the GNU dld library. (Don't
bother on SunOS 4 or 5, they already have dynamic linking using shared
libraries.)
- It is possible to specify alternative versions for the Math library
(default -lm) and the C library (default the empty string) using the
options --with-libm=STRING and --with-libc=STRING, respectively. E.g.
if your system requires that you pass -lc_s to the C compiler to use
the shared C library, you can pass --with-libc=-lc_s. These libraries
are passed after all other libraries, the C library last.
You can also build an "extended" interpreter, using modules that are
not contained in the Modules directory. Extensions are distributed as
a separate tar file (currently extensions.tar.Z). See the README file
there.
Building for multiple architectures (using the VPATH feature)
-------------------------------------------------------------
If your file system is shared between multiple architectures, it
usually is not necessary to make copies of the sources for each
architecture you want to support. If the make program supports the
VPATH feature, you can create an empty build directory for each
architecture, and in each directory run the configure script (on the
appropriate machine with the appropriate options). This creates the
necessary subdirectories and the Makefiles therein. The Makefiles
contain a line VPATH=... which points to directory containing the
actual sources.
For example, the following is all you need to build a minimal Python
in /usr/tmp/python (assuming ~guido/src/python is the toplevel
directory and you want to build in /usr/tmp/python):
$ mkdir /usr/tmp/python
$ cd /usr/tmp/python
$ ~guido/src/python/configure
[...]
$ make
[...]
$
To use the readline library in this case, you will have to create a
subdirectory of your build directory called readline, copy
readline/Makefile into it, edit the Makefile to contain a proper VPATH
line (and possibly edit the compiler flags set in the Makefile), and
pass the configure script a --with-readline=DIRECTORY option giving it
the absolute (!) pathname of the readline build directory.
Note that Modules/Makefile copies the original Setup file to the build
directory if it finds no Setup file there. This means that you can
edit the Setup file for each architecture independently. For this
reason, subsequent changes to the original Setup file are not tracked
automatically, as they might overwrite local changes. To force a copy
of a changed original Setup file, delete the target Setup file. (The
makesetup script supports multiple input files, so if you want to be
fancy you can change the rules to create an empty Setup.local if it
doesn't exist and run it with arguments $(srcdir)/Setup Setup.local;
however this assumes that you only need to add modules.)
Troubleshooting
---------------
Here is a selection from the FAQ on various common problems.
3.6. Q. Link errors building Python with STDWIN on SGI IRIX.
A. Rebuild STDWIN, specifying "CC=cc -cckr" in the Makefile.
3.8. Q. Link errors after rerunning the configure script.
A. It is generally necessary to run "make clean" after a configuration
change.
3.9. Q. The python interpreter complains about options passed to a
script (after the script name).
A. You are probably linking with GNU getopt, e.g. through -liberty.
Don't. (If you are using this because you link with -lreadline, use
the readline distributed with Python instead.)
3.10. Q. When building on the SGI, make tries to run python to create
glmodule.c, but python hasn't been built or installed yet.
A. Comment out the line mentioning glmodule.c in Setup and build a
python without gl first; install it or make sure it is in your $PATH,
then edit the Setup file again to turn on the gl module, and make
again. You don't need to do "make clean"; you do need to run "make
Makefile" in the Modules subdirectory (or just run "make" at the
toplevel).
3.13. Q. Other trouble building Python 1.0.2 on platform X.
A. Please email the details to <guido@cwi.nl> and I'll look into it.
Building on non-UNIX systems
----------------------------
On non-UNIX systems, you will have to fake the effect of running the
configure script manually. A good start is to copy the file
config.h.in to config.h and edit the latter to reflect the actual
configuration of your system. Most symbols must simply be defined as
1 only if the corresponding feature is present and can be left alone
otherwise; however RETSIGTYPE must always be defined, either as int or
as void, and the *_t type symbols must be defined as some variant of
int if they need to be defined at all. Then arrange that the symbol
HAVE_CONFIG_H is defined during compilation (usually by passing an
argument of the form `-DHAVE_CONFIG_H' to the compiler, but this is
necessarily system-dependent).
Distribution structure
----------------------
Most subdirectories have their own README file. Most files have
comments.
ChangeLog A raw list of changes since the first 1.0.0 BETA release
Contrib/ Contributed code
Demo/ Demonstration scripts, modules and programs
Demo2/ Some more demonstrations (not distributed)
Doc/ Documentation (in LaTeX)
Ext-dummy/ Placeholder for Extensions in the distribution
Extensions/ Extension modules (not distributed)
Grammar/ Input for the parser generator
Include/ Public header files
Lib/ Python library modules
Makefile Rules for building the distribution
Misc/ Miscellaneous files
Modules/ Implementation of most built-in modules
Objects/ Implementation of most built-in object types
Parser/ The parser and tokenizer and their input handling
Python/ The "compiler" and interpreter
README The file you're reading now
acconfig.h Additional input for the autoheader program
config.h Configuration header (generated)
config.h.in Source from which config.status creates config.h
config.status status from last run of configure script (generated)
configure Configuration shell script (GNU autoconf output)
configure.in Configuration specification (GNU autoconf input)
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CVS committal... (*) int*int overflow check shouldn't doubles on alpha (cf. John Tromp's mail)
renaming project? (promised but not even started yet!)
better way to specify PYTHONPATH (*) add signal.alarm()
improve 'install' targets in toplevel Makefile
Add Demo directory again (*) when abort()ing because of unexpected exception, print a message
Add NEWS and HISTORY to Misc directory first (Jack)
fix compilation warnings
non-Sun dynamic linking (SGI 4 dl, and dl-dld elsewhere) ----------------------------------------------------------------------
put some stuff into Contrib dir (from BUGS1.0.1)
make freeze script working again (use Extensions/mkext.py as a base?) ----------------------------------------------------------------------
write porting guide document addpack, urllib, ...
update documentation (especially ext.tex!)
test set? (*) import.c from JaapV
.
. document os.exec*
.
release! name sunaudiodevmodule.c is too long
(*) play with / include SUIT interface
make regsub.[g]sub() optionally case insensitive
handle printing of errors in lines containing multiline strings
======================================================================
(*) ought to use features from autoconf 1.8
(*) errors in __repr__() are handled wrong when called from format
- long(0x80000000) has wrong value!
- hex(0x80000000) shouldn't have sign (?)
(*) need way to set buffering at file open time
(*) need way to force stdout unbuffered
- document new modules (builtin as well as Lib)
- restart CVS tree
(?) build shared libs for SunOS 4.1.3
- Mac X... code resources as shared libs?
(*) X patches from Adrian Phillips
(*) Jaap's freeze script
Incorporate with contrib status:
- additions to glmodule by rg3h
(*) Jaap's posixfile module (with locking)
(*) pthreads interface
Later:
- put the offending object in IOError and posix.error
- make module marshal work with user-defined file-like objects
- built-in help?
- hierarchical module names?
Big plans:
- allow separate interpreters (a la Xt's Applocation Contexts, and Tcl)
- great renaming
- complete reflexive nature of the language, e.g. have interfaces et
create any kind of object
(*) GUI interface a la Tk
======================================================================
For FAQ:
(*) why don't strings (numbers, tuples, ...) have methods / attributes
(*) why are strings / numbers / tuples immutable
why don't list methods return self
======================================================================
PM/TODO list after Egypt (from mailing list):
make .pyc files executable (how?)
thread status and improvements (lock stmt; signal/wait)
optional optimizations
pthread migration
(*) test/incorporate new SUIT
shorten excessively long filenames (sunaudiodevmodule.c)
(*) default parameter values
multiple interpreter objects
(*) import shlib bug (irix5.2) (reload, dlclose)
(*) addpack.py
(*) newmodule.c (or other hacks to create new modules, classes, functions
etc. from their components)
persistency
new Dbhash.py, dbhash library
reraise; or raise 3rd param for traceback?
-or- except type, value, tbackobjec
redesign exceptions from scratch?
dbm objects miss items(), values() methods
(*) jar's new profile
answer q about coerce()
(*) reconsider pass [expression] ??? -or- don't print non-interactive
exprs -or- option to suppress printing non-None expressions
(*) should be able to hash code objs (add fns to convert between lists/tuples)
describe() ?
distribute demo2 with Holmes
(*) re-reply on try-continue
classes are too slow
add += etc. ?
optimize tuple = tuple
allow (a, b) = [1, 2] and [1, 2] = (1, 2) ???
wustl is not un the northwest of the US?
(*) MPW doesn't like \000 in string literals?
MPW patches, unixemu patches
prepare tar files with
- mac think projects (*)
- mpw makefiles
- dos makefiles
- mac unixemu lib
explain rules about == vs. 'is' for strings (* by others on the list)
(*) bug in ceval.c DELETE_FAST
(*) possible optimize LOAD_NAME -> LOAD_GLOBAL
get dos python with suit (inesc)
(*) docs for try/continue are wrong and unclear
better hashing fn?
(*) add improved nested indent to python-mode.el
(*) add a section to tutorial on "new" features
rewrite section on formatting in tutorial
======================================================================
TODO-TOO list:
test for overflow when converting python long to float
lift restrictions on tuple or list in many cases
(*) allow long ints with sensible values for getargs "i"
(*) multiline string literals
what to do about 64-bit int literals (on 64-bit machines) in .pyc
files? (Currently truncated w/o warning!)
DOCUMENTATION UPDATE! E.g. ref.tex doesn't describe:
(*) - line joins w/o backslash
(*) - double-quoted strings; \" in strings
- more?
Should double-check all changes with docs!
(?) Interrupting output still sometimes doesn't call clearerr() properly
sometimes ghost errors when interrupting during debugging in
'continue' mode?
typing a comment to a primary prompt shouldn't issue a secondary prompt
readline: add hooks to recognize Python syntax and to expand Python
commands and names
should have absolute pathnames in function objects
in general check that all the exceptions are modernized and that the
messages aren't giving the same error twice (e.g., stdwinmodule.c!)
- check read/write allowed for file objects
- introduce macros to set/inspect errno for syscalls, to support things
like getoserr()
======================================================================
DOS/Windows Python
(???) command line options?
(*) os.system()
(???) interrupts
(???) wrap
(*) pc module
(*) dospath.py
DOS/Windows Python -- TO DO
(*) memtest from config.h
(*) copy sources back
(*) build DOS version
(*) distribute 386 version
(*) Mac 1.0.1 release?
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AC_PREFIX(python)
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AC_CHECKING(for NeXT)
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AC_HEADER_EGREP(clock_t, time.h, , AC_DEFINE(clock_t, long))
AC_MODE_T AC_MODE_T
AC_OFF_T AC_OFF_T
AC_PID_T AC_PID_T
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AC_HAVE_LIBRARY(dl) AC_HAVE_LIBRARY(dl)
LIBS="${LIBS} -L${READLINESRC-${PWD-${CWD-`pwd`}}/readline}"
AC_HAVE_LIBRARY(readline)
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AC_HAVE_LIBRARY(termcap)
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AC_HAVE_LIBRARY(pthreads, [AC_DEFINE(WITH_THREAD)
AC_DEFINE(_POSIX_THREADS)
LIBS="$LIBS -lpthreads"
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AC_HAVE_LIBRARY(mpc, [AC_DEFINE(WITH_THREAD)
LIBS="$LIBS -lmpc"
LIBOBJS="$LIBOBJS thread.o"])
AC_HAVE_LIBRARY(thread, [AC_DEFINE(WITH_THREAD)
LIBS="$LIBS -lthread"
LIBOBJS="$LIBOBJS thread.o"])
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AC_SUBST(DLINCLDIR)
DLINCLDIR=/
AC_CHECKING(for --with-sgi-dl)
AC_WITH(sgi-dl, [AC_DEFINE(WITH_SGI_DL)
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DLINCLDIR=${dldir}
LIBS="$LIBS -ldl -lmld"])
AC_CHECKING(for --with-dl-dld)
AC_WITH(dl-dld, [AC_DEFINE(WITH_DL_DLD)
dldir=`echo "$withval" | sed 's/,.*//'`
dlddir=`echo "$withval" | sed 's/.*,//'`
if test -d "$dldir" -a -d "$dlddir"
then LIBS="$LIBS -L$dldir -L$dlddir"
else AC_ERROR(proper usage is --with-dl-dld=DL_DIRECTORY,DLD_DIRECTORY)
fi
DLINCLDIR=${dldir}
LIBS="$LIBS -ldl -ldld"])
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AC_REPLACE_FUNCS(dup2 getcwd strerror strtoul strtod memmove) AC_REPLACE_FUNCS(dup2 getcwd strerror memmove)
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AC_TIME_WITH_SYS_TIME AC_TIME_WITH_SYS_TIME
AC_STRUCT_TM AC_STRUCT_TM
AC_TIMEZONE AC_TIMEZONE
AC_COMPILE_CHECK([whether we have altzone], [#include <time.h>], [return altzone;], AC_DEFINE(HAVE_ALTZONE))
AC_COMPILE_CHECK([whether sys/select.h and sys/time.h may both be included], [
#include <sys/types.h>
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AC_TEST_PROGRAM([
int foo(int x) { return 0; }
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AC_CHECKING(for variable length prototypes and stdarg.h)
AC_TEST_PROGRAM([
#include <stdarg.h>
int foo(int x, ...) { return 0; }
int main() { return foo(10, 11, 12); }
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if test "$have_prototypes"; then if test "$have_prototypes"; then
AC_COMPILE_CHECK(["bad exec* prototypes"], [#include <unistd.h>], [char *const*t;execve("@",t,t);], , AC_DEFINE(BAD_EXEC_PROTOTYPES)) AC_COMPILE_CHECK(["bad exec* prototypes"], [#include <unistd.h>], [char **t;execve("@",t,t);], , AC_DEFINE(BAD_EXEC_PROTOTYPES))
fi fi
AC_CHECKING(for bad static forward)
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struct s { int a; int b; };
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int foobar() { return !foo.a; }
static struct s foo = { 1, 2 };
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