Changeset 51c01bff for chapter08/python.xml

Timestamp:

05/13/2021 03:45:11 AM (3 years ago)

Author:

Thomas Trepl (Moody) <thomas@…>

Branches:

ml-11.0, multilib, xry111/multilib

Children:

0ebda11

Parents:

3de7f52 (diff), 5d0219fd (diff)
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Message:

Automatic merge of trunk into multilib

File:

• chapter08/python.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

chapter08/python.xml

@@ -45 +45 @@
     <para>Prepare Python for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr       \
-            --enable-shared     \
-            --with-system-expat \
-            --with-system-ffi   \
-            --with-ensurepip=yes</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr        \
+            --enable-shared      \
+            --with-system-expat  \
+            --with-system-ffi    \
+            --with-ensurepip=yes \
+            --enable-optimizations</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
@@ -78 +79 @@
     </varlistentry>
 
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term><parameter>--enable-optimizations</parameter></term>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>This switch enables stable, but expensive, optimizations.</para>
+      </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
     </variablelist>
 
@@ -84 +92 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>To test the results, issue:</para> 
-
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make test</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>Some tests requiring a network connection or additional packages are
-    skipped. The tests test_unicodedata and test_curses tests are known to fail. For
-    more comprehensive results, the tests can be rerun when Python 3 is 
-    reinstalled in BLFS.</para>
+    <para>Running the tests at this point is not recommended.  The
+    tests are known to hang indefinitely in the partial LFS environment.
+    If desired, the tests can be rerun at the end of this chapter or
+    when Python 3 is reinstalled in BLFS.  To run the tests anyway,
+    issue <command>make test</command>.</para>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>