On Jan 17, 2006, at 4:17 PM, Anthony Baxter wrote: > On Wednesday 18 January 2006 06:19, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:17 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote: >>> Building the readline on OS X 10.4 fails, is this known, or am I >>> doing something wrong? >> >> There are definitely serious issues with readline on OS X 10.4. >> I've hit them too but haven't had time to post about it yet. I'm >> far from an expert on them (Bob, Jack and others can definitely >> speak with more knowledge on this) but my understanding is that the >> default readline that comes with Tiger is not sufficient to build >> the Python extension library. > > It sounds like configure needs to grow a test to detect that a > "libreadline" it finds is actually the crackful "libedit" and refuse > to use it if so.
Unless something has changed since 2.4.1, that is the current behavior. Thomas' title should've probably been "Building readline on OS X 10.4 fails", rather than "Building on OS X 10.4 fails" (which reads as "Building Python on OS X 10.4 fails" given the list). -bob _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
