Compiling fails on Mac OS X 10.5

[Mark Dickinson]

On Jan 12, 9:41 am, mc <m.ottene... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm trying to compile on my Macbook with OS X 10.5. I have all updates
> and Xcode 3.0 installed.
>
> I checked python out with: svn checkouthttp://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/py3k
> After that I did "./configure" in the  created "py3k" dir. Everything
> went fine. But make fails with the following error message:
> ranlib libpython3.0.a
> gcc  -u _PyMac_Error -o python.exe \
>                         Modules/python.o \
>                         libpython3.0.a -ldl
> make: *** [sharedmods] Error 1
>
> I tried checking out many times. I also tried de 3.0a2 release,gives
> me the same error. I've heard others have compiled it successfully on
> Leopard so I wonder what causes the problems on my system.

Could you post the rest of the ./configure and compilation output?
make might be rereporting an error that occurred further up.

I don't see anything related on the Python bug tracker.  It might be
worth posting a bug report at bugs.python.org

Mark