On Feb 20, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On OSX (10.4.4) the readline module in the svn HEAD fails compilation > as follows. This is particularly strange since the buildbot is green > for OSX... What could be up with this? > > building 'readline' extension -lots of build junk-
In Apple's quest to make our lives harder, they installed BSD libedit and symlinked it to readline. Python doesn't like that. The buildbot might have a real readline installation, or maybe the buildbot is skipping those tests. You'll need to install a real libreadline if you want it to work. I've also put together a little tarball that'll build readline.so statically, and there's pre-built eggs for OS X so the easy_install should be quick: http://python.org/pypi/readline -bob _______________________________________________ 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
