On Apr 9, 2014, at 8:54 PM, Ray Woodrow <rbwood...@southernphone.com.au> wrote:

> Thanks Daniel,
> 
> I upgraded to 10.9 last year but xCode, the command line tools and Fink are 
> all very recent installs, I do have the latest command line tools installed 
> as well, and just to make sure I reinstalled them, just in case. I do have 
> /usr/include in place as well as /sw/include.
> 
> Where would I look for the error you are wanting to see, I noticed that there 
> are many warnings generated and a few errors mentioned while compiling the 
> code. Are you and Alex looking for the same error??
> 
> Alex asked, 'The message indicates that the readline module failed to build, 
> but I would imagine that there's an earlier error message in the log which 
> mentions why it failed.’
> 
> Thanks again for your help, fellows,
> 
> Ray
> On 10 Apr 2014, at 9:30  🌜☀️, Daniel Johnson <daniel.johnso...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Apr 9, 2014, at 6:57 PM, Ray Woodrow <rbwood...@southernphone.com.au> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> G’day again Fink developers,
>>> 
>>> I’m still not getting anywhere with this Python compiling, I’ve tried all 
>>> the various fixes including changing the self-update method, I tried 
>>> changing beck and forth a couple of times. I’ve even tried the two URLs 
>>> that Alex H. suggested, one was dated earlier than what I have on my system.
>>> 
>>> My guess is that it is not specific to Python as this is the third package 
>>> that has failed, I can’t remember the first one but libxslt was failing 
>>> before and presumably got fixed but Python just won’t work. Anyway, I’ll 
>>> leave that to you who know much more that I do.
>>> 
>>> I’ve pasted the last bit of the output below but is that enough?? Let me 
>>> know if you need more of it, thanks, and thanks for your help,
>>> 
>>> Ray
>>> 
>>> PS just as a reminder, I’m trying to install Terminator.
>>> 
>>> Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were 
>>> not found:
>>> bsddb185           dl                 imageop         
>>> linuxaudiodev      ossaudiodev        spwd            
>>> sunaudiodev                                           
>>> To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the 
>>> module's name.
>>> (Fink package build should have 7 missing)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Failed to build these modules:
>>> readline                                              
>> 
>> It's not really enough since it doesn't show the actual error, however, I've 
>> seen something like this before. It usually means you're missing 
>> /usr/include. That should be installed by the command line tools, but 
>> something seems to be missing. Did you perhaps update from 10.8 to 10.9 
>> recently? This could happen if you did that and still have Xcode 5.1 from 
>> 10.8 installed. It would also explain why you have other packages failing. 
>> Try downloading and installing the latest command line tools.
>> 
>> Daniel
>> 

Woah, I just tried to rebuild python27 and it failed the same way. It seems 
that the latest fink readline package has broken python. I'll have to look into 
it some more but it seems readline's API has unexpectedly changed. :(

Daniel

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