On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Tamer Higazi <th9...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Rich! > Why don't you ask the maintainer who built the macport?! > Why don't you try to to figure out with "WHAT" kind of tools they have built > the mac port and "WHERE" to get them either. And ask him also how to set the > flags to build the 64bit edition. > > Then you don't have to be afraid of any prebuild mac port editions. This is > how I would do it. > > Tamer >
That's not quite how Macports works. Macports is a package manager. Each package has a port file with (among other things) 1) A location to download the source tarball 2) A list of patches to apply 3) A list of dependencies 4) Sets of config arguments and build scripts for different variants Richard, if something goes wrong with Macports, nuking /opt/local does a pretty good job of cleaning it up. And even if you don't want to use Macports, you can still grab their patches. They're all here: http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/lang/python32. You can dig through the portfile to see what patches and config flags they're using to build it. > > Am 02.01.2012 22:23, schrieb K Richard Pixley: >> >> On 1/2/12 13:03 , Benjamin Kaplan wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:32 PM, K Richard Pixley<r...@noir.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Where would I look to find the current expected status of python3 on >>>> MacOsX >>>> Lion? >>>> >>>> The distributed binaries aren't capable of allowing extensions that use >>>> gcc. >>>> >>>> I can build the source naked, but then it lacks some libraries, notably, >>>> readline. >>>> >>>> Attempting to build the full Mac packages fails, even with the few tiny >>>> patches I used for 2.7.2. >>>> >>>> Is anyone working on this? Are there pre-release patches available? >>>> >>>> Should I be asking elsewhere? >>>> >>>> --rich >>>> -- >>> >>> >>> Have you tried building through Macports? >> >> >> No, I haven't. Macports scares me. When I tried them, or fink, in the >> past, they rapidly polluted my boot disk and I didn't have any way to >> unpollute it other than reloading from scratch. >> >> In freebsd, netbsd, or any of the linux distributions, I can trivially >> create a virtual machine in about 20 minutes, screw with it as I like, and >> toss it in seconds. In modern linux, I can create a root file system with >> btrfs, snapshot, chroot to the snapshot and munge away. When I'm done, I can >> just toss the snapshot. (Can do snapshots in vmware too). >> >> If I screw up my boot drive in MacOsX, I'm in for hours of recovery time >> reloading from Time Machine. While that's a lot better than it used to be >> now that Time Machine is available, (reloading can now be done largely >> unattended), it's not a price I'm willing to pay in order to attempt to use >> Macports. >> >> --rich > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
