[Python-Dev] readline compilarion fails on OSX (original) (raw)

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Tue Feb 21 04:04:08 CET 2006

On Feb 20, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

On OSX (10.4.4) the readline module in the svn HEAD fails compilation as follows. This is particularly strange since the buildbot is green for OSX... What could be up with this?

building 'readline' extension -lots of build junk-

In Apple's quest to make our lives harder, they installed BSD libedit
and symlinked it to readline. Python doesn't like that. The
buildbot might have a real readline installation, or maybe the
buildbot is skipping those tests.

You'll need to install a real libreadline if you want it to work.

I've also put together a little tarball that'll build readline.so
statically, and there's pre-built eggs for OS X so the easy_install
should be quick: http://python.org/pypi/readline

-bob

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