From fe23ad72833f2106f7056037778ebebc3023553d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:01:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add note about popen2 problem on Linux noticed by Pablo Bleyer. --- README | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 8b31ca19ea7..c16a59aa717 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -193,6 +193,12 @@ Linux: On Linux version 1.x, once you've built Python, use it to run to fail as well, so their removal is a good idea regardless of how you configure python. + More recently, a problem with threads and fork() was tracked + down to a bug in the pthreads code in glibc version 2.0.5; + glibc version 2.0.7 solves the problem. This causes the + popen2 test to fail; problem and solution reported by Pablo + Bleyer. + Also under RedHat Linux 5.0, the crypt module now needs the -lcrypt option. Uncomment this flag in Modules/Setup, or comment out the crypt module in the same file.