On 24 Apr, 2010, at 18:15, Michael Foord wrote: > On 18/04/2010 15:13, Ronald Oussoren wrote: >> 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? >> > > 10.6.3 and yes I have Tcl and Tk in /Library/Frameworks. How do I determine > which versions they are?
$ ls -l /Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions total 8 drwxr-xr-x 9 sysadmin admin 306 Oct 6 2009 8.5 lrwxr-xr-x 1 sysadmin admin 3 Oct 25 2009 Current -> 8.5 As you can see, my system has Tcl 8.5. Ronald
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