[Pythonmac-SIG] Building 2.4

[Bob Ippolito]

On Dec 5, 2004, at 2:21 PM, Robert Valsjö wrote:

> On 2004-12-02, at 16.11, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> On Dec 2, 2004, at 10:00, Samuel M.Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Would anyone care to post step by step instructions for building a 
>>> framework version of Python 2.4
>>> that will peacefully cohabitate with the built in OS X Python 2.3.
>>>
>>> Does it build out of the box from the source?
>>
>> Patch your config/Makefile of your existing Python 2.3.0 installation 
>> (see a recent email of mine on the subject)
>> Fetch 2.4 sources
>>
>> From the 2.4 source directory do the following:
>>
>> env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 ./configure --enable-framework
>> make
>> sudo make frameworkinstall
>>
>> You probably want to add /usr/local/bin early on in your path if you 
>> haven't already, you may want to delete /usr/local/bin/python if you 
>> want python 2.3 to be "the default", because there is also a symlink 
>> named python2.4 that you could use.
>>
>> -bob
>
> Hi!
>
> When I do this I get:
>
> esac
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./setup.py", line 1061, in ?
>     class PyBuildInstallLib(install_lib):
>   File "./setup.py", line 1067, in PyBuildInstallLib
>     so_ext = sysconfig.get_config_var("SO")
>   File "/Users/robert/Desktop/Python-2.4/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py", 
> line 509, in get_config_var
>     return get_config_vars().get(name)
>   File "/Users/robert/Desktop/Python-2.4/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py", 
> line 486, in get_config_vars
>     func()
>   File "/Users/robert/Desktop/Python-2.4/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py", 
> line 371, in _init_posix
>     raise DistutilsPlatformError(my_msg)
> distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: $MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET 
> mismatch: now "" but "10.3" during configure
> make: *** [sharedmods] Error 1

Yes, also set the environment variables for make.

-bob