looks like I found my answer. It seems --with-readline is no longer required and that configure will locate readline if it's installed.
Since we are building our own framework build and don't want to depend on the target system having readline we need to pass to configure LIBS= and CPPFLAGS= so that the autoconf tests will find our local copy of readline. bear wrote: > I'm trying to do a framework build of Python 2.4.2 and need to have > Python use a local install of readline 5.0 but the configure step seems > to be ignoring my --with-readline > > configure is run like this: > > ./configure --prefix=/home/bear/test > --enable-framework=/home/bear/test/Library/Frameworks > --with-readline=/home/bear/test > --disable-ipv6 > > > I've confirmed that at /home/bear/test there is include/readline/* and > lib/readline/* > > Before I go digging into configure and related files I figure I would > ask here. > > thanks, > > bear > > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > > _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig