[Tutor] PYTHON ON OSX
Steven Burr
sburr@mac.com
Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:07:53 -0700
On Wednesday, April 18, 2001, at 07:46 PM, Daniel Yoo wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Robert Hicks wrote:
>
>> http://www.zope.org/Members/jshell/ZopeOnOSX
>>
>> This pretty much explains it all.
>>
>> I did NOT have to do the FCNTL
>> I DID have to edit the Makefile
>> I did NOT have to do "cp Python/python ./python.exe"
>
> Thanks for the info; there was a LOT of people asking about this on
> python-help as well.
>
I think the instructions on the Zope web site may be a bit dated. The
Unix version of Python 2.1 now compiles "out of the box" on OS X.
The README file in the Python-2.1/ directory that you get after
untarring the tarball includes specific instructions for running the
configure script in OS X. If you follow those instructions, you can do
the usual make, make install routine afterwards. There's no longer any
need to edit the Makefile manually. I just compiled and installed the
final release this way, and it worked without a hitch.
One caveat, OS X users may need to add /usr/local/bin, where the python
binary is installed by default, to their paths.
There's a lot more information on what people have been up to with
python on OS X in the archives for the python-mac SIG.