From 84a016417a9f334a15a5ee306069f696138b4a7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jack Jansen Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 21:19:55 +0000 Subject: Changes to the OSX section: - steer people away from installing with sudo - warn that fink-installed software may cause trouble - explain why you might want a framework build and point people to Mac/OSX/README. --- README | 19 +++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index de1ec59..0b00b0d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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 -- cgit v0.12