Python on Minix

[William Park]

On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 05:57:16PM -0700, sri at asu.edu wrote:
> i just tried 'CC=cc AR=... ./configure' and i still
> get error messages such as 'here file: not found' and
> 'grep: bad regular expression' and 'regex: nexted +?-
> regular expression'. so maybe the grep and sed on
> minix2.0.0 are at fault.
> the compelling reasons is that i have only minix installed on
> my laptop, and even minix makes it kinda slow!
> 
> sriram thaiyar
> 
> 
> > 
> > 1.  Environment variables must come before command:
> > 	CC=cc AR=... ./configure
> >     per instruction.
> > 
> > 2.  Is there a compelling reason for running Minix?  Why not Linux?

Go to a bookstore, and get Linux CD.  There are many distributions out
there --- Slackware, Debian, Redhat, Suse, Caldera, and others.  I run
Slackware-4.0, and Python-1.52 compiles cleanly out of the box with
    ./configure
    make
    make install

Since you already run Minix, moving upto Linux would be no problem.  I
suspect that problems you are encountering come from old or "abridged"
version of various utilities.  At least, that what I remember when I was
playing with Minix.

	Yours truly,
	William Park