[Python-Dev] readline compilarion fails on OSX
Bob Ippolito
bob at redivi.com
Tue Feb 21 04:04:08 CET 2006
On Feb 20, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On OSX (10.4.4) the readline module in the svn HEAD fails compilation
> as follows. This is particularly strange since the buildbot is green
> for OSX... What could be up with this?
>
> building 'readline' extension
-lots of build junk-
In Apple's quest to make our lives harder, they installed BSD libedit
and symlinked it to readline. Python doesn't like that. The
buildbot might have a real readline installation, or maybe the
buildbot is skipping those tests.
You'll need to install a real libreadline if you want it to work.
I've also put together a little tarball that'll build readline.so
statically, and there's pre-built eggs for OS X so the easy_install
should be quick:
http://python.org/pypi/readline
-bob
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