Changeset 255

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Wed Feb 8 07:30:20 2006
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giovannibajo
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Update manual reporting the UPX issue

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    254 254 of fitting something useful on a diskette are not gone forever! Installer has  
    255 255 been tested with many UPX versions without problems. Just get it and install it  
    256   on your PATH, then rerun configure. For Windows, that's all you need to know.  
      256 on your PATH, then rerun configure.  
      257  
      258 For Windows, there is a problem of compatibility between UPX and executables  
      259 generated by Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 (or the equivalent free  
      260 toolkit available for download). This is especially worrisome for users of  
      261 Python 2.4+, where most extensions (and Python itself) are compiled with that  
      262 compiler. This issue has been fixed in later beta versions of UPX, so you  
      263 will need at least UPX 1.92 beta. `Configure.py`_ will check this for you  
      264 and complain if you have an older version of UPX and you are using Python 2.4.  
    257 265  
    258 266 .. sidebar:: UPX and Unix  
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    263 271     but the information in this paragraph still needs to be updated.  
    264 272  
      273 .. _`Configure.py`: `Configuring your PyInstaller setup`_  
      274  
    265 275 For Linux, a bit more discussion is in order. First, UPX is only useful on  
    266 276 executables, not shared libs. Installer accounts for that, but to get the full