[Python-Dev] Building on OS X 10.4 fails (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Jan 17 21:47:53 CET 2006

On 1/17/06, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:17 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote: > Building the readline on OS X 10.4 fails, is this known, or am I doing > something wrong?

There are definitely serious issues with readline on OS X 10.4. I've hit them too but haven't had time to post about it yet. I'm far from an expert on them (Bob, Jack and others can definitely speak with more knowledge on this) but my understanding is that the default readline that comes with Tiger is not sufficient to build the Python extension library. However, I use DarwinPorts and IWBNI Python's build process could search /opt/local for the necessary readline support, using that if found. I know that DP's Python 2.4.2 build does provide readline, so that should definitely work. I've glanced at the setup.py file, but haven't had the time to dig in in enough detail to actually fix and commit.

OS X-specific package support has been removed from setup.py for the more generic support of LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS. Set those properly for /opt/local/(lib|include) and it will find readline installed by DP fine (it's how I build my checkout with readline support).

-Brett

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