Compiling Python 1.6 under MacOS X ...

[Fredrik Lundh]

Johann wrote:
> Ah, but windows executables get ".exe" appended to them, while the
> unixy mac ones don't, so the executable conflicts with the diretory.

Note that the Python 2.0 makefile contains the following
two lines:

    # Executable suffix (.exe on Windows and Mac OS X)
    EXE=  @EXE@

I don't have an OS X box myself, and I cannot figure out
if anyone (i.e. configure) is actually setting the EXE variable
on OS X.

But if it doesn't, this seem to imply that you're supposed
to use the --with-suffix option to configure...

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