Kent> What's the current status of any semi-official build of Python on Kent> Intel? We actually need to build it without readline support, Kent> haven't been able to figure out how (configure --without-readline Kent> doesn't seem to do it). It builds if we download Gnu readline and Kent> install it, but without that the build fails.
Apparently the readline library in MacOSX isn't really readline. It's a renamed libedit. Not having encountered this deception before, Python's build procedure doesn't know to test the capability of readline. I suggest you just comment out the readline checks in setup.py. Skip _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig