[Pythonmac-SIG] Building 2.4 (original) (raw)

David Reed dreedmac at columbus.rr.com
Thu Dec 2 18:50:02 CET 2004

On Dec 2, 2004, at 10:11 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

On Dec 2, 2004, at 10:00, Samuel M.Smith wrote:

Would anyone care to post step by step instructions for building a framework version of Python 2.4 that will peacefully cohabitate with the built in OS X Python 2.3.

Does it build out of the box from the source? Patch your config/Makefile of your existing Python 2.3.0 installation (see a recent email of mine on the subject) Fetch 2.4 sources From the 2.4 source directory do the following: env MACOSXDEPLOYMENTTARGET=10.3 ./configure --enable-framework make sudo make frameworkinstall You probably want to add /usr/local/bin early on in your path if you haven't already, you may want to delete /usr/local/bin/python if you want python 2.3 to be "the default", because there is also a symlink named python2.4 that you could use. -bob

Can anyone explain or point me to something to read about the benefits/trade-offs of using the framework version (I'm a long time Linux/Solaris user, but new to OS X) vs. just a regular compilation?

Thanks, Dave

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