building Python 2.4.2 on Mac OS X

[Fredrik Lundh]

Vidar Gundersen wrote:

> are there any easy to understand instructions
> for building Python on Mac OS X Tiger?
> are there any prerequisites that i have missed?
> my ./configure && make stops here:
>
> Python/mactoolboxglue.c:462: warning: return makes integer from pointer without a cast
> make: *** [Python/mactoolboxglue.o] Error 1

did you try googling for distinct portions of the error message ?  here's
the first hit

http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/darwinports/2005-November/029138.html

(note that the problem here is a missing include file, as shown by the
error messages at the top)

here's a followup message with the fix:

http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/darwinports/2005-November/029146.html

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