[Python-Dev] Building on OS X 10.4 fails

[Anthony Baxter]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 06:19, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:17 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote:
> > Building the readline on OS X 10.4 fails, is this known, or am I
> > doing something wrong?
>
> There are definitely serious issues with readline on OS X 10.4. 
> I've hit them too but haven't had time to post about it yet.  I'm
> far from an expert on them (Bob, Jack and others can definitely
> speak with more knowledge on this) but my understanding is that the
> default readline that comes with Tiger is not sufficient to build
> the Python extension library.

It sounds like configure needs to grow a test to detect that a 
"libreadline" it finds is actually the crackful "libedit" and refuse 
to use it if so.

Anthony