Fork

[deckerben]

> 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