On Nov 15, 2006, at 2:32 PM, Todd Thal wrote: > I am having one "hades" of a heckuva time getting readline support for > Python-2.5 on a Mac OS 10.4.8.8.0
Thanks to Ronald and Skip for replying to this thread. It took me a little bit to connect the dots from their replies, so I thought I'd share my experiences. Maybe this can help someone, and maybe also lead to Ronald or someone else clarifying the right way to use his CFLAGS and LDFLAGS patch. I'm using darwinports, so first I had to sudo port install readline Once that was done, I wanted to build a local, non-framework Python with readline. darwinports uses /opt/local, so Ronald's approach led me to this best guess: $ CFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib ./configure -- prefix=/Users/gary/py $ make However, that was unsuccessful. $ ./python.exe Python 2.4.4 (#1, Nov 30 2006, 20:36:29) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import readline Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named readline Maybe someone could let me know what I did wrong? Skip's approach was a little more unusual, at least to me, since it was a step in-between `make` and `make install`. However, it worked. :-) If, after a configure and a make (but, again, before a make install) I run this command... $ ./python.exe setup.py build_ext --include-dirs=/opt/local/include -- library-dirs=/opt/local/lib ...then readline appears in glory. $ ./python.exe Python 2.4.4 (#1, Nov 30 2006, 20:36:29) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import readline >>> Yay! Of course, I could have copied readline.so from MacPython but that would have been cheating. :-) HTH someone Gary _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
