In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "J. Jeffrey Close" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I have been trying for some time to build Python 2.4.x > from source on OS X 10.4.6. I've found *numerous* > postings on various mailing lists and web pages > documenting the apparently well-known problems of > doing so. Various problems arise either in the > ./configure step, with configure arguments that don't > work, or in the compile, or in my case in the link > step with libtool. > > The configure options I'm using are the following: > --enable-framework --with-pydebug --with-debug=yes > --prefix=/usr --with-dyld --program-suffix=.exe > --enable-universalsdk > > I've managed to get past configure and can compile > everything, but in the link I get the error "Undefined > symbols: ___eprintf" . This appears to have > something to do with dynamic library loading not > properly pulling in libgcc. I've tried with -lgcc in > the LD options, but that produces a configure error > "cannot compute sizeof...". > > If I remove "--enable-framework" the complete build > works, but unfortunately that is the one critical > element that I need. > > The web pages I've found referring to this range from > 2001 to present -- still apparently everybody is > having problems with this. Does *anybody* here have > Python built from source on this OS? Hi, Jeffrey, Yes, I use Python 2.4.3 built this way. I did not have any significant troubles building Python on my 10.4 system. My configuration step was a little different from yours, but basically I just checked out the 2.4.3 source from Subversion, and this is how I configured it: env CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -I/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Headers" \ LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" \ configure --enable-framework --enable-shared I included /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib so that the build could use the version of GNU readline I installed via Darwin ports. The Tk headers allow pythonw to build properly. Having configured, I built and installed via: make sudo make frameworkinstall I hope this may be helpful to you. -M -- Michael J. Fromberger | Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sting/ | Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
