From: "deckerben" Newsgroups: comp.lang.python,comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <3d15c022$0$26988$9b622d9e AT news DOT freenet DOT de> <3D15C638 DOT EE5797F9 AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> Subject: Re: Fork Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 23:37:27 +0200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Lines: 35 Message-ID: <3d16405b$0$166$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.7.7.103 X-Trace: 1024868444 news.freenet.de 166 213.7.7.103 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT freenet DOT de To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com > Look in the libc docs: > > info libc alpha fork Thanks for the reference, it shed more light on the matter than the FAQ did. I'm 100% sure now that its the fork that makes distutil builds using GCC "run out of memory" :-) I started working on on of the python library scripts that defines the make sequence so that it no longer calls python funcion 'os.fork()'. It is _possible_ that the next release of Python will support distutil builds _to_a_limited_degree_. For those who are interested, here is a new feature list of *currently* running modules that exist in the latest port that were not present in the previous test. Next release date is still undetermined. socketmodule (using watterloo library - DOS packet driver is needed.) expat module - James Clark's XML parser inside a Python wrapper libxml wrap- the Python wrapper for the GNOME 'LibXML' library, latest CVS release Mathematical/Scientific visualization using NUMERIC (complete) and the DISLIN display driver Runar Tenfjord's Python adaptation of Mark Spink's NURBS toolbox has been incorperated as an example of the dislin/numpy facilities. Others: termios, selectmodule, syslogmodule, parsermodule The fate of cursesmodule depends on the hopefuly successful implementation of the DXE2 dynamic linking library, as many symbols it defines/requires interfere with DISLIN. Ben