Compiling Python 1.6 under MacOS X ...

[jpb]

In article <mailman.969771095.26179.python-list at python.org>, "Tim 
Peters" <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:

>[jpb]
>> MacOS X uses HFS+ as it's filesystem by default.  HFS+ suffers from case
>> insensitivity.
>
>So do all Windows filesystems, Python builds and runs fine on all flavors 
>of
>Windows, and has since '91.  So, like I said, I have no idea what the new
>problem may be with OSX.  For every pair of distinct files X and Y in the
>distribution, if X and Y are in the same directory, the names of X and Y
>differ by more than just case.  Or, if that's not true, it's a Unix(tm) 
>bug
>that doesn't affect Windows <wink>.

The problem 1.5.2 was that there is a Python subdirectory in the same 
directory that python gets built in

jpb

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