[Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

[Michael Foord]

On 18/04/2010 15:13, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> On 14 Apr, 2010, at 23:37, Michael Foord wrote:
>
>    
>> On 14/04/2010 23:32, Greg Ewing wrote:
>>      
>>> Michael Foord wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Building Python requires, I believe, the XCode development tools to be installed. Even then, building a full version of Python - with *all* the C extensions that are part of a Python release - is not a trivial task.
>>>>          
>>> What's non-trivial about it? I usually find that the normal
>>> "./configure; make; make install" sequence works fine without
>>> any further intervention.
>>>
>>> If you want a framework installation you have to read the
>>> README and use a couple of extra options, but it still works
>>> very smoothly.
>>>
>>>        
>> A build on my machine produces output similar to:
>>
>>
>> Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were not found:
>> _bsddb             dl                 gdbm
>> imageop            linuxaudiodev      ossaudiodev
>> readline           spwd               sunaudiodev
>> To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name.
>>
>>
>> Failed to build these modules:
>> _tkinter
>>
>> Obviously many of those are not meant to be built and I usually build Python for running the test suite - so I don't care about not having Tkinter. A new user of Python would most certainly care about not having Tkinter.
>>      
>
> What's the OS version? Do you have a copy of Tcl/Tk in /Library/Frameworks?
>    

10.6.3 and yes I have Tcl and Tk in /Library/Frameworks. How do I 
determine which versions they are?

All the best,

Michael

> Ronald
>
>    


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