[Pythonmac-SIG] newbie process question about building MachoPython

[Jack Jansen]

My guess (because of the references to "dl") is that you're 
picking up stuff from /sw that you don't want to pick up. Or, at 
least, you're picking up stuff that the build process hasn't 
been tested for. Specifically, if you have dl installed in /sw 
(dl is the "linux-way" of doing dynamic loading) it could be 
that Python partially configures itself to use dl-based dynamic 
linking in stead of dynload-based dynamic linking. But: 
apparently it only partially works (otherwise it would have 
"just worked"). The last sentence because I know some people 
have used dl on OSX and gotten it to work (IIRC).

My suggestion would be to not use /sw/include and /sw/lib 
unconditionally but in stead refer to it with the various 
--with-foobar options of configure (for all foobars you have in 
/sw).

On zaterdag, juni 29, 2002, at 11:42 , Dan Brotsky wrote:

> (Please forgive me if the answer to this question should have 
> been obvious: I'm quite new to building the CVS tree from 
> scratch.)
>
> I've been having trouble building MachoPython CVS head on OS 
> 10.1.5 (latest released devtools).  I use the fink environment 
> for most of my unixy stuff, and so set CPPFLAGS to 
> -I/sw/include and LDFLAGS to -L/sw/lib.  Building has been 
> giving errors linking the Parser module (can't find library dl) 
> and also compiling some other modules (can't find header 
> dl<something>).  I believe I've found the two problems in 
> Makefile.pre.in underlying the failures--
>
> 1. The PGEN build line doesn't add $(LDFLAGS)
>
> 2. The CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS defines don't include @CPPFLAGS@ and 
> @CFLAGS@.
>
> --and I've prepared a context-diff patch that fixes those problems.
>
> So now comes the process question:
>
> 1. Should I submit a bug in sourceforge?
>
> 2. Should I submit the patch in sourceforge?
>
> I know that the python.org culture page says the answers to 1 
> and 2 are yes, but I wanted to check first given that this is 
> kind of a Mac-y thing rather than a general thing.
>
> Thanks in advance for gentle responses.
>
>     dan
>
>
>
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