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

[Doug Wyatt]

[localhost:~/dev/Python-2.2.1] doug% find . -name '*expat*'
./Doc/lib/libpyexpat.tex
./Lib/test/output/test_pyexpat
./Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
./Lib/xml/parsers/expat.py
./Lib/xml/sax/expatreader.py
./Modules/pyexpat.c
./PCbuild/pyexpat.dsp

The expat sources aren't part of the (main) Python source distribution 
(at least not the one I downloaded), so after building Python I build 
and install PyXML-0.7.1 and all is well.

Doug


On Wednesday, Jul 24, 2002, at 04:31 US/Pacific, Dinu Gherman wrote:
> 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


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