On Wednesday 18 January 2006 06:19, Barry Warsaw 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.
It sounds like configure needs to grow a test to detect that a "libreadline" it finds is actually the crackful "libedit" and refuse to use it if so. Anthony _______________________________________________ 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
