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

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 14 Apr, 2010, at 23:37, Michael Foord wrote:

> 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.


What's the OS version? Do you have a copy of Tcl/Tk in /Library/Frameworks? 

Ronald

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 3567 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20100418/a9f191a4/attachment.bin>