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

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl
Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:10:28 +0200


On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 01:31 , 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...

This is fixed in 2.3a0: Python now simply includes the relevant parts of 
expat.
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