Python 2.1 running on Mac OS X 10.0.1 here

[John W. Baxter]

In article <mailman.987970473.31917.python-list at python.org>, Tim Peters
<tim.one at home.com> wrote:

> [John W. Baxter]
> > I built Python 2.1 as a Mac OS X admin user, using:
> >
> > ./configure --with-suffix=.exe --with-dyld"
> > make
> > 
> > Then in make test, I saw the following error
> > test_re
> > make: *** [test] Segmentation fault
> > ...
> 
> Look in the README file:
> 
> Mac OS X: You need to add the "-traditional-cpp" option to the
>         compiler command line for the Mac OS X Public Beta.  This is
>         appearantly a bug in the default pre-processor, and is
>         expected not to be a problem with future versions.  Run
>         configure with "OPT='-g -traditional-cpp' ./configure
>         --with-suffix=.exe --with-dyld" to add this
>         option.  One of the regular expression tests fails due to the
>         small stack size used by default (how to change this?), and
>         the test_largefile test is only expected to work on a Unix UFS
>         filesystem (how to check for this on Mac OS X?).

Thanks, Tim...I took the "Mac OS X Public Beta" phrase in the above,
followed by "expected not to be a problem with future versions" to
suggest that I need not do that.

See also Steve's post suggesting 
    limit stack 4096
prior to trying the test...that solved the problem.

  --John