[Python-Dev] Building on OS X 10.4 fails

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 17, 2006, at 4:17 PM, Anthony Baxter wrote:

> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 06:19, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:17 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote:
>>> Building the readline on OS X 10.4 fails, is this known, or am I
>>> doing something wrong?
>>
>> There are definitely serious issues with readline on OS X 10.4.
>> I've hit them too but haven't had time to post about it yet.  I'm
>> far from an expert on them (Bob, Jack and others can definitely
>> speak with more knowledge on this) but my understanding is that the
>> default readline that comes with Tiger is not sufficient to build
>> the Python extension library.
>
> It sounds like configure needs to grow a test to detect that a
> "libreadline" it finds is actually the crackful "libedit" and refuse
> to use it if so.

Unless something has changed since 2.4.1, that is the current  
behavior.  Thomas' title should've probably been "Building readline  
on OS X 10.4 fails", rather than "Building on OS X 10.4 fails" (which  
reads as "Building Python on OS X 10.4 fails" given the list).

-bob