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@@ -460,16 +460,23 @@ Mac OS X 10: One of the regular expression tests fails with a segmentation On a clean OSX /usr/local does not exist. Do a "sudo mkdir -m 775 /usr/local" - before you do a make install. Alternatively, do "sudo make install" - which installs everything as superuser. + before you do a make install. It is probably not a good idea to + do "sudo make install" which installs everything as superuser, + as this may later cause problems when installing distutils-based + additions. + + Some people have reported problems building Python after using "fink" + to install additional unix software. Disabling fink (remove all references + to /sw from your .profile or .login) should solve this. You may want to try the configure option "--enable-framework" which installs Python as a framework. The location can be set as argument to the --enable-framework option (default - /Library/Frameworks). You may also want to check out ./Mac/OSX - for building a Python.app. You may also want to manually - install a symlink in /usr/local/bin/python to the executable - deep down in the framework. + /Library/Frameworks). A framework install is probably needed if you + want to use any Aqua-based GUI toolkit (whether Tkinter, wxPython, + Carbon, Cocoa or anything else). + + See Mac/OSX/README for more information on framework builds. Cygwin: With recent (relative to the time of writing, 2001-12-19) Cygwin installations, there are problems with the interaction |