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

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 24 Apr, 2010, at 18:15, Michael Foord wrote:

> On 18/04/2010 15:13, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>> 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?
>>   
> 
> 10.6.3 and yes I have Tcl and Tk in /Library/Frameworks. How do I determine which versions they are?

$ ls -l /Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  9 sysadmin  admin  306 Oct  6  2009 8.5
lrwxr-xr-x  1 sysadmin  admin    3 Oct 25  2009 Current -> 8.5

As you can see, my system has Tcl 8.5.

Ronald

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