Commit bd7730ee authored by Tim Peters's avatar Tim Peters

Fixed typo in new notes.

Removed ancient info about wrestling with Win98SE.
parent 6d5d4bb4
Quick instructions: Quick instructions:
The buildout has been tested under Windows 2K and XP Pro SP2. It "almost The buildout has been tested under Windows 2K and XP Pro SP2.
works" on Win98SE (see bottom of file for discussion).
Setup Environment Setup Environment
...@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ There doesn't appear to be a sane way to extract binaries (.exe, .pyd, ...@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ There doesn't appear to be a sane way to extract binaries (.exe, .pyd,
& messy process on Windows. So python.mk just copies them from an installed & messy process on Windows. So python.mk just copies them from an installed
Python instead. Cautions: Python instead. Cautions:
- If you didn't accept the Python's installer's default directory, or if - If you didn't accept the Python installer's default directory, or if
you did but it's on a different drive, you'll need to change you did but it's on a different drive, you'll need to change
WIN_PYINSTALLEDDIR in python.mk. WIN_PYINSTALLEDDIR in python.mk.
...@@ -142,24 +141,3 @@ All platform notes ...@@ -142,24 +141,3 @@ All platform notes
root of your Cygwin installation -- the same thing the Cygwin shell root of your Cygwin installation -- the same thing the Cygwin shell
desktop shortcut resolves to, so you can get the exact path by looking desktop shortcut resolves to, so you can get the exact path by looking
at the icon's Properties). at the icon's Properties).
Win98SE notes
-------------
- Every time a makefile runs xcopy, there's a segfault in kernel32.dll,
which hangs the bash shell with an endless succession of error boxes.
The only way I found to break out of this was to bring up the debugger,
close it, then type Ctrl+C at the hung bash shell. The bash shell
appears to be fine at that point, but you can never close it (short of
killing it via the task manager).
Same thing if xcopy32 is used instead.
xcopy works OK directly from a bash shell. The segfaults occur if it's
run via a makefile, or via a shell script. Guessing a problem with I/O
redirection, since some other apps can't see keyboard input before the
hung stuff is killed.
Workaround: xxcopy works fine <http://www.xxcopy.com/>; free for
personal use, but not for commercial use. Rename it to xcopy.exe and
get it into your path before the native xcopy, or fiddle the XCOPY
defn in common.mk to use xxcopy instead of xcopy.
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