Its taken longer than I'd hoped, however they're finally up for review. The updated bits have been attached to the previous patch entries in the patch manager: 435381: distutils changes http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=435381&group_id=5470 450265: build files - self contained subdirectory in PC/ http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=450265&group_id=5470 450266: library changes - 3 patch files covering:- - Lib/ (included os2emxpath.py as previously discussed here) - Lib/plat-os2emx/ (new subdirectory) - Lib/test/ (cope with 2 EMX limitations) http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=450266&group_id=5470 450267: core changes - 4 patch files covering:- - Include/ - Modules/ (lots of changes; see below for more info) - Objects/ (see below for more info) - Python/ http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=450267&group_id=5470 I hope that I got the patch links right... Particular notes wrt #450267: - the patch to Modules/import.c supports VACPP in addition to EMX. Michael Muller has trialled this patch with a VACPP build successfully. It is messy, but OS/2 isn't going to lose the 8.3 naming limit on DLLs anytime soon :-( Although truncating the DLL (PYD) name to 8 characters increases the chances of a name clash, the case-sensitive import support in the same patch alleviates it somewhat, and the fact that the "init<module>" entrypoint is maintained will result in an import failure when there is an actual name clash. - Modules/unicodedata.c is affected by a name clash between the internally defined _getname() and an EMX routine of the same name defined in <stdlib.h>. The patch renames the internal routine to _getucname() to avoid this, but this change may not be acceptable - advice please. - Objects/stringobject.c and Objects/unicodeobject.c contain changes to handle the EMX runtime library returning "0x" as the prefix for output formatted with a "%X" format. I have tried to minimise the changes in these patches to the minimum needed for the port to function, ie I've tried to eradicate the cosmetic changes in the earlier patches, and avoid picking up unwanted files (such as Modules/Setup). Please let me know if you find any such changes I missed. The patches uploaded apply cleanly to a copy of an anonoymously checked out CVS tree as of 0527 AEST this morning (Jan 27), and have been built and regression tested on both OS/2 EMX and FreeBSD 4.4R with no unexpected test failures. If there are no unresolvable objections, and approval to apply these patches is granted, I propose that the patches be applied as follows:- Stage 1: the build patch (creates+populates PC/os2emx/) Stage 2: the Lib/plat-os2emx/ patch Stage 3: the Lib/ and Lib/test/ patches Stage 4: the distutils patch Stage 5: the Include/, Objects/ and Python/ patches Stage 6: the Modules/ patch I would expect to allow at least 48 hours between stages. Comments/advice on this proposal also appreciated. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@pcug.org.au | Belconnen ACT 2616 Web: http://www.andymac.org/ | Australia