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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Feb 21 04🔞24 CET 2006

Thanks! That worked.

But shouldn't we try to fix setup.py to detect this situation instead of making loud clattering noises?

--Guido

On 2/20/06, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:

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 easyinstall should be quick: http://python.org/pypi/readline -bob

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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