[Pythonmac-SIG] Need to hand-compile expat on OS X? (Fwd: [XML-SIG] Strange install issue)

[Dinu Gherman]

I think this is the more appropriate place to discuss it...
It's the first time I encounter this issue, explicitly com-
piling expat on OS X. Can that be true?

Python's setup.py mentions something about "convincing the
author (James Clark?) to let one allow libexpat.a automati-
cally. Sounds all strange to me...

Dinu


> Von: Etienne Posthumus <epoz@epoz.org>
> Datum: Mi, 24. Jul. 2002  13:14:06 Europe/Berlin
> An: Dinu Gherman <gherman@darwin.in-berlin.de>
> Betreff: Re: [XML-SIG] Strange install issue
>
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Dinu Gherman wrote:
>
>> I'm a bit puzzled! Moving over to a new machine I found some strange
>> errors with simple scripts handling simple XML. After a while, I've
>> made a totally new Python 2.2.1 installation (on OS X) with only the
>> std.lib. XML modules, but I get the traceback below. On my previous
>> machine that worked fine, but there I also had PyXML installed...
>>
>> Really, all I did was to install Python with ./configure and make
>> install... I'd like to have that running before considering to in-
>> stall PyXML. Anybody a clue?
>
> That looks like expat was not compiled in? On OS X the default compile
> does not include expat. (at least whenever I compiled it).
> You need to edit the modules file and re-compile.
>
> gr.
>
> Etienne Posthumus
> Amsterdam, Nederland