Python on Minix

[William Park]

On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 04:10:55PM -0700, sthaiyar at imap2.asu.edu wrote:
> hi all,
> 	i am trying to install python1.5.2
> on minix. however, when i run './configure',
> i get lots of:
> 
> checking (some file) ...here file: not found
> grep: bad regular expression
> 
> I am assuming here that these messages arent
> supposed to show up. BTW, i am running Minix
> of a 486 IBM Thinkpad.
> I read the README file and saw for Minix
> when using ack, "CC=cc AR=aal RANLIB=: ./configure",
> so i typed './configure CC=cc AR=aal RANLIB=:'  (is this right???)
> and got the same results as above. i even tried
> 'make' a "make: dont know how to make @srcdir@/configure".
> any pointers???
> 
> 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?