Thanks! That worked. But shouldn't we try to fix setup.py to detect this situation instead of making loud clattering noises?
--Guido On 2/20/06, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
