[Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X) (original) (raw)

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Sun Apr 18 16:13:39 CEST 2010

On 14 Apr, 2010, at 23:37, Michael Foord wrote:

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 detectmodules() 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.

What's the OS version? Do you have a copy of Tcl/Tk in /Library/Frameworks?

Ronald

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