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

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Thu Apr 15 15:01:19 CEST 2010

Whilst making Python easier to build on the Mac is certainly a worthy goal, the point of my post was to demonstrate (in reply to an email by Greg Ewing) why building a full Python from source was non-trivial. I personally only build Python from source to test changes to core-Python and am happy with the Python binary installers for the Mac - once they arrive. :-)

All the best,

Michael

On 15/04/2010 14:18, Ned Deily wrote:

In article<4BC63599.5020005 at voidspace.org.uk>, Michael Foord<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:

A build on my machine produces output similar to:

Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were not found: bsddb third-party (Sleepycat) library needed (see the installer script) dl only available for 32-bit gdbm third-party library needed (not supplied in the installer build) imageop only available for 32-bit (and removed in 3.x) linuxaudiodev ossaudiodev neither supported on OS X readline requires either GNU readline lib (not included with OS X) or (with 2.6.5, trunk, or py3k) can now use OS X editline (libedit) replacement when targeting for 10.5 or 10.6 (add MACOSXDEPLOYMENTTARGET=10.5 or 10.6 to ./configure arguments). spwd sunaudiodev neither supported on OS X Failed to build these modules: tkinter currently only supported for 32-bit archs as there was no 64-bit (non-X) Tk on OS X prior to 10.6 and there are unresolved problems with the 10.6 Apple-supplied Tk 8.5 and 2.6.x IDLE (Issue6864).

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