Commit 3cc7e4d0 authored by Fred Drake's avatar Fred Drake

Update list of extension modules that may be interesting to enable on

most modern Unix flavors.

The age of this portion of the README was noted in SourceForge bug #115625.
parent 8179a9de
......@@ -459,11 +459,12 @@ next time you run make in the toplevel directory. (When working
inside the Modules directory, use "make Makefile; make".)
The default collection of modules should build on any Unix system, but
many optional modules should work on all modern Unices (e.g. try dbm,
nis, termios, timing, syslog, curses, new, soundex, parser). Often
the quickest way to determine whether a particular module works or not
is to see if it will build: enable it in Setup, then if you get
compilation or link errors, disable it -- you're missing support.
many optional modules should work on all modern Unices (e.g. try
audioop, imageop, crypt, dbm, gdbm, nis, resource, termios, timing,
syslog, _curses, pyexpat, readline, rgbimg, zlib). Often the quickest
way to determine whether a particular module works or not is to see if
it will build: enable it in Setup, then if you get compilation or link
errors, disable it -- you're missing support.
On SGI IRIX, there are modules that interface to many SGI specific
system libraries, e.g. the GL library and the audio hardware.
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