Dear all,
[MacBook 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo; Mac OS X 10.5.4; macports 1.600]
I'm pretty new to macports, but these dependency tracking installing
paradigms are a tremendous contribution to open-source, kudos all.
Unfortunately, macports is making me tear my hair out.
After uninstalling everything and doing selfupdate I try again:
port install python25 goes as expected and install python_select followed
by python_select python25 seems to do its job; however:
my old leopard installed python command-line interpreter that I get in a
terminal window used to give me a command history. Using the up and down
arrow keys, I could step back and forward through my recent commands. Now
with the macports installation of python25, the python cli gives me
giberish in response to up and down arrows:
^[[A and ^[[B
If I set an env variable thus:
setenv PYTHONHOME /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/
and invoke python, I get the apple installed
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Oct 29 2008, 10:49:16)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5488)] on darwin
which still has the old arrow behavior, so I'm confident that the problem
is not with Terminal.
After some reading, I gathered that this might have something to do with
readline. So I tried sudo port install py25-readline which fails with the
following error:
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd
"/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_python_py25-readline/work/Python-2.5.2/Modules"
&& /opt/local/bin/python2.5 setup.py build " returned error 1
Command output: running build
running build_ext
building 'readline' extension
creating build
creating build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5
-DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I/opt/local/include
-I/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/include/python2.5
-c readline.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/readline.o
unable to execute -DNDEBUG: No such file or directory
error: command '-DNDEBUG' failed with exit status 1
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
I'm not even sure if readline's got anything to do with my command history
problem, but this doesn't look good all the same.
I can live with two python installations; I can even live with the fact
that I'll have to port install all of the modules that I had accumulated
in /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages; but I really don't want to do
without my command line history.
Can anyone give me a clue as to where the problem lies, or what I've done
wrong?
Jon
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