install on MacOS X 10.1?

Richard Jones richard at bizarsoftware.com.au
Wed Oct 3 23:43:04 EDT 2001


On Thursday 04 October 2001 13:23, xxxx wrote:
> > xxxx wrote:
> > I down-laoded 2.1.1
> > In the Makefile I found this suggested sequence
> > #       ./configure
> > #       make
> > #       make test
> > #       make install
> >
> > In the README it says
> > Mac OS X 10.0: Run configure with "OPT='-no-cpp-precomp' ./configure
> >       --with-suffix=.exe --with-dyld".  This generates executable
> >       file: 'python.exe' (it cannot be named 'python' on an HFS or
> >       HFS+ disk as the file name clashes with directory 'Python').
> >       The '-no-cpp-precomp' option prevents a large number of
> >       compilation warnings.  One of the regular expression tests
> >       fails with a SEGV due to the small stack size used by default
> >       (how to change this?), and the test_largefile test is only
> >       expected to work on a Unix UFS filesystem (how to check for
> >       this on Mac OS X?).
> >
> > but taking that literally doesn't work at all, generating error messages
> > about the OPt...
> > Is OPT an environment variable?
>
> I tried setenv OPT '...' and it seemed to accept that,
> but now I'm getting complaints from the make

The link I put in my other e-mail had a discussion about just the error 
you're encountering. Here it is again:

   http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2001-October/013416.html

explanation of problem:

   http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2001-October/013428.html

solution:

   http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2001-October/013439.html


    Richard

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