On 14/04/2010 23:32, Greg Ewing wrote:
Michael Foord wrote:
Building Python requires, I believe, the XCode development tools to
be installed. Even then, building a full version of Python - with
*all* the C extensions that are part of a Python release - is not a
trivial task.
What's non-trivial about it? I usually find that the normal
"./configure; make; make install" sequence works fine without
any further intervention.
If you want a framework installation you have to read the
README and use a couple of extra options, but it still works
very smoothly.
A build on my machine produces output similar to:
Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules
were not found:
_bsddb dl gdbm
imageop linuxaudiodev ossaudiodev
readline spwd sunaudiodev
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the
module's name.
Failed to build these modules:
_tkinter
Obviously many of those are not meant to be built and I usually build
Python for running the test suite - so I don't care about not having
Tkinter. A new user of Python would most certainly care about not having
Tkinter.
Michael
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