compiling python on Mac OS X Beta

[Steven D. Majewski]

On 21 Sep 2000, Johann Hibschman wrote:

> Steven D Majewski writes:
> 
> > The developer tools for OSX beta haven't shipped yet. Have you 
> > loaded the Darwin developer tools on top of OSX, or do you have
> > tools from DP4 ?  
> 
> As a cheap graduate student, I don't have a subscription to the
> development tools, so I downloaded the Darwin 1.0.2 distribution,
> mounted the disk image, and copied the development tools over from
> there.  Horrible hackery, yes.  I think the two options are that
> either I somehow missed a header file (unlikely) or that the autoconf
> setup got some mojo wrong in a way that I don't understand yet.
> 
> There are quite a few things which could have gone wrong, and I'm not
> yet familiar with the OS X headers, etc., so I'll keep working on it.
> Now if I'd been running FreeBSD for the past few years rather than
> Linux, maybe I'd have a better sense... ;-)
> 

I think there have been a lot of changes since 1.0.2 -- if you want
to develop without the OSX developer kit, you should update 1.0.2 
from the CVS server. ( missing header files and the new config.guess
are what I can recall off the top -- look in the mailing list archives
for details.) I suspect that there'll be a new Darwin release
coming along soon, but "soon" is probably not before they manage
to get the OSX developer kit out the door! 



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