On Jul 28, 2006, at 11:51 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > On Jul 26, 2006, at 10:00 AM, Martin Frank wrote: > >> I downloaded the binary distribution for Mac OS X 10.4 from >> >> http://www.python.org/download/mac/ >> >> but I am missing the libpython2.4.a file in >> >> >> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/ >> config >> >> >> How can I get or create it in a simple way? > > No, and it's not supposed to be there. A framework build of Python > must be dynamically linked. The linker doesn't actually care if libpython.a is a static library. $ cd /Library/ ... /config $ ln -s ../../../Python libpython.a
> A better question is why do you want a > static library? I want to know this to. I know of one piece of software that requires this: mod_python 1.x. Because of this and because config-python (new in 2.5) also assumes that a libython.{a,dylib} is present the 2.5 installer will create the above mentioned link for you. This is lame, but I don't have time to fix the world, let alone try to get the patches in. Ronald _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig