[Pythonmac-SIG] configure failing with Python 2.4 (original) (raw)

Kevin Dangoor kid at kendermedia.com
Sat Dec 25 03:08:10 CET 2004

After trying to build a module today (and failing), I went searching around for the answer to this problem. It turns out that there are installation problems with older versions of Xcode. I had installed Xcode 1.1 from my Panther CDs. Downloading and installing Xcode 1.5 fixed the problem (and I've got Python 2.4 building in another window as I write this).

Kevin

Bob Ippolito wrote:

Reinstall Xcode and/or make sure you aren't using Fink or something which may have installed an alternate compiler (make sure "which cc" and "which gcc" point to /usr/bin).

On Dec 23, 2004, at 10:23 AM, Kevin Dangoor wrote:

Err, while this might be enough info for someone to go on, I just realized that there's not much there...

I'm running Mac OS 10.3.6. I have XCode/Developer Tools installed, though that didn't seem to make any difference. I even tried moving my .bashrc and .profile files out of the way to be sure that those weren't causing any grief. Kevin Kevin Dangoor wrote:

I'm thinking that I must be doing something simple wrong... hopefully that's the case.

I downloaded the Python 2.4 source and tried to run a basic ./configure to see what I get. What I got was this error: checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables which appears to be caused by configure:1772: c++ conftest.cc >&5 ld: can't locate file for: -lcrt1.o While I'm sure I can track that down, I figured that I must be doing something silly. Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?

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