On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 07:56 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
A quick foray into building 2.1.x on MacOSX ended in failure (2.1.x was released before MacOSX was available).
I build Python 2.1.3 and Zope 2.6 on OS X. Some hints I can give are: Build on a UFS filesystem to avoid case insensitivity problems. If your disks have HFS+ file systems, use /Applications/Utilities/Disk Copy.app to create a UFS disk image big enough to hold your build and mount it. You might want to run python's configure like this "LDFLAGS="-flat_namespace" ./configure" to make the OS X linker act more like traditional unix link editors. You should also want to add the (documented via --help) --with-dyld flag to python's configure. If you have the fink utilities installed (fink.sourceforge.net), it has some programs and libraries that are helpful in building python, zope, and some of their packages and products.