On 1/17/06, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:17 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote: > > Building the readline on OS X 10.4 fails, is this known, or am I doing > > something wrong? > > There are definitely serious issues with readline on OS X 10.4. I've > hit them too but haven't had time to post about it yet. I'm far from an > expert on them (Bob, Jack and others can definitely speak with more > knowledge on this) but my understanding is that the default readline > that comes with Tiger is not sufficient to build the Python extension > library. > > However, I use DarwinPorts and IWBNI Python's build process could > search /opt/local for the necessary readline support, using that if > found. I know that DP's Python 2.4.2 build does provide readline, so > that should definitely work. I've glanced at the setup.py file, but > haven't had the time to dig in in enough detail to actually fix and > commit. >
OS X-specific package support has been removed from setup.py for the more generic support of LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS. Set those properly for /opt/local/(lib|include) and it will find readline installed by DP fine (it's how I build my checkout with readline support). -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
