[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Compiling python...

[Murphy/Kostick]

Dan Wolfe wrote:
> 
> Here's a recipe for Python 2.1...
> 
> - gnutar -xvzf Python-2.1.tgz
>  cd Python-2.1/
>  ./configure --with-dyld --with-suffix=.x
>  change Makefile line
>      OPT=            -g -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
> to
>      OPT=            -g -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -no-cpp-precomp
> --> this change gets around BSD header problems that were written up in
> RADAR earlier
>  make
>  Work around small stack size (512k) which causes test_re and test_sre
> to seg fault
>     limit stacksize 2M
>  make test
>  sudo make install
>  cd /usr/local/bin/
>  sudo mv python.x python
>  sudo mv python2.1.x python2.1
> 
> - Dan

It's probably worthwhile to add at the end:

		sudo update_prebinding -root /

I found this speeded things up for me.

Jim Murphy
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jwmdck@monmouth.com
Wall Township, New Jersey USA