[Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

[Michael Foord]

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.

Michael

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