building Python 2.4.2 on Mac OS X

[Vidar Gundersen]

are there any easy to understand instructions
for building Python on Mac OS X Tiger?
are there any prerequisites that i have missed?
my ./configure && make stops here:

Python/mactoolboxglue.c:462: warning: return makes integer from pointer without a cast
make: *** [Python/mactoolboxglue.o] Error 1

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

are there any easy to understand instructions
for building Python on Mac OS X Tiger?

It should work out of the box.

are there any prerequisites that i have missed?
my ./configure && make stops here:

You should pass --with-suffix=.exe to configure, or else
you get a file name conflict on HFS.

Python/mactoolboxglue.c:462: warning: return makes integer from pointer without a cast
make: *** [Python/mactoolboxglue.o] Error 1

This might be where it stops, but it is not the cause of the error.
Can you please look up a bit further in the output to see what command
fails? Or else, can you post the entire make output?

Regards,
Martin

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

are there any easy to understand instructions
for building Python on Mac OS X Tiger?
are there any prerequisites that i have missed?
my ./configure && make stops here:

Python/mactoolboxglue.c:462: warning: return makes integer from pointer without a cast
make: *** [Python/mactoolboxglue.o] Error 1

did you try googling for distinct portions of the error message ? here's
the first hit

http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/darwinports/2005-November/029138.html

(note that the problem here is a missing include file, as shown by the
error messages at the top)

here's a followup message with the fix:

http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/darwinports/2005-November/029146.html

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[Vidar Gundersen]

===== Opprinnelig melding fra Martin v. Löwis | 9 Jan 2006:

You should pass --with-suffix=.exe to configure, or else
you get a file name conflict on HFS.

did this. no difference.

This might be where it stops, but it is not the cause of the error.
Can you please look up a bit further in the output to see what command
fails? Or else, can you post the entire make output?

could it be this one causing the stop?:

../Include/pymactoolbox.h:11:33: error: QuickTime/QuickTime.h: No such file or directory

as Fredrik Lundh pointed out, regarding Xcode, i have 2.2 on
my system, but writing this i realize i probably didn't
include the QuickTime SDK when i installed the Developer
Tools, so i installed it, CoreAudio, and... iHappy

 

[Samuel M. Smith]

On os x 10.4.3 to build a framework version

unpack source dist python-2.4.2
../configure --enable-framework
make
sudo makeframework install

Please note that "sudo make install" won't work

are there any easy to understand instructions
for building Python on Mac OS X Tiger?
are there any prerequisites that i have missed?
my ./configure && make stops here:

Python/mactoolboxglue.c:462: warning: return makes integer from
pointer without a cast
make: *** [Python/mactoolboxglue.o] Error 1

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[Walter Overby]

Not sure if this will meet your needs, but I have had good luck using
the "Fink" package manager, which has 2.4.2 in unstable. It takes a
while to update the package list and build, but it worked for me
without errors.

Regards,

Walter.