On Jul 14, 2006, at 7:42 AM, Michael Glassford wrote: > Bob Ippolito wrote: >> On Jul 12, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Michael Glassford wrote: >>> Bob Ippolito wrote: >>>> On Jul 12, 2006, at 7:51 AM, Michael Glassford wrote: >>>> and second it's not what you're running anyway! Look at the >>>> site- packages dir in the exception, that's a normal unix >>>> install, not a framework install. >>> Yes, as I said I ran three different executables and got the >>> same error from each. This is only one of the three errors. >>> Presumably the others would have had different site-packages >>> paths. Unfortunately, the output is long gone and I can't >>> reproduce this problem again except with /usr/local/bin/ >>> python2.4; however, I ran each more than once just to make sure, >>> using the full path each time, so I don't see how I could have >>> been mistaken. In any case... >>> >>>> You need a framework install (./configure --enable-framework >>>> && sudo make frameworkinstall). >>> Is there somewhere that I should have learned about this option? >> Mac/OSX/README in the sources, ./configure --help, > > I didn't know about either of these; thanks. > >> or mailing list archives. > > Where would you have expected to learn about the option? > > Ideally there would be a note easily found from the Python source > download page telling me that the option existed and that I would > likely want to use it (or under what circumstances I would want to > use it).
There's a lot of configure options, I'm not sure this one deserves special mention on the sources page. It doesn't apply very often. Extremely few people need to build a framework Python. >>> This behavior is different from the Python installed on Tiger by >>> the 2.4 universal binary installer (where there is no pythonw >>> and python has access to the window manager), but at least I >>> have something that seems to work now. >> Yes, it is different than Universal Python because you compiled >> different sources. Universal Python 2.4.3 is a fork of Python >> that includes several Mac-specific features that aren't in the >> mainline sources until Python 2.5. The Universal Python >> repository is at: >> http://svn.pythonmac.org/python24/python24-fat/ > > OK, thanks. I didn't realize that. The version I used should be OK > for building an application on 10.3.9 that will run on 10.3.9, right? Yes. >> Universal Python 2.4.3 does have "pythonw", for compatibility, > > I had one system where pythonw for 2.4.3 was missing (i.e. "python" > ran 2.4.3 but "pythonw" ran 2.3.5), but can't find it again now. If > I run across it again I'll try to figure out how this happened. Well, it wasn't a system with Universal Python 2.4.3. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
