On 14 Apr, 2010, at 23:37, Michael Foord wrote: > On 14/04/2010 23:32, Greg Ewing wrote: >> Michael Foord wrote: >>> Building Python requires, I believe, the XCode development tools to be >>> installed. Even then, building a full version of Python - with *all* the C >>> extensions that are part of a Python release - is not a trivial task. >> >> What's non-trivial about it? I usually find that the normal >> "./configure; make; make install" sequence works fine without >> any further intervention. >> >> If you want a framework installation you have to read the >> README and use a couple of extra options, but it still works >> very smoothly. >> > A build on my machine produces output similar to: > > > Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were not > found: > _bsddb dl gdbm > imageop linuxaudiodev ossaudiodev > readline spwd sunaudiodev > To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the > module's name. > > > Failed to build these modules: > _tkinter > > Obviously many of those are not meant to be built and I usually build Python > for running the test suite - so I don't care about not having Tkinter. A new > user of Python would most certainly care about not having Tkinter.
What's the OS version? Do you have a copy of Tcl/Tk in /Library/Frameworks? Ronald
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