On Nov 6, 2011, at 9:51 AM, David Lowe wrote: > On 5 Nov, 2011, at 7:18 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: > >>> (cc'ing the python27 maintainer, in case the fix needs to happen there) >>> >>> I can confirm this issue on 10.5/powerpc as well. It appears only to >>> occur when readline5-5.2-15 is installed. It didn't happen for me on >>> 10.6/x86_64 or 10.6/i386. (I haven't looked at 10.7 yet) >>> >>> On 10.5, you have the option to downgrade readline5 temporarily via >>> >>> sudo apt-get install readline5=5.0-1005 readline5-shlibs=5.0-1005 >>> >>> and then you can install python27. >> >> I've had another report of python27 failing on 10.5 in the same way. There's >> clearly something wrong with readline5, but I have no access to a 10.5 >> system so I can't help diagnose what's wrong >> >> Daniel > > Mr. Johnson, i will try a verbose build and send you the log. Is there > anything else you would like me to do before or after that may help > troubleshoot this? > > Sent from my MacBookPro > > Everybody is talking about the weather but nobody does anything about it.
The problem is in readline5 not python27. The readline5 package has been updated with a fix for this issue. Try a selfupdate and then rebuild python27 to see if it fixes things for you. Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
