error building python24 on mac os x

[Boey Maun Suang]

On 11/05/2007, at 15:02, Jann Röder wrote:

> I just found something interesting in Mac/OSX/Dist/build :
>
> # If the filesystem is case-sensitive then "python" will be built, but
> # some parts of the install expect "python.exe which is what is built
> # on a case-insensitive filesystem.  Make a link just in case it is
> # needed.
> if [ ! -e python.exe ]; then
>     ln -s python python.exe
> fi
>
> So it is a case-sensitve vs. not case sensitive filesystem, but this
> code should fix it... Why isn't it working then ?

The README file in Mac/OSX/ says that that Mac/OSX/Dist/build is only  
used for creating binary distributions, and grepping for "\<Dist\>"  
and "/build\>" through the source after the configure step indicates  
to me that it is never called by anything else.

By the way, has anybody reported this problem upstream?  I imagine  
that it would be easy for them to fix.

Kind regards,


Maun Suang

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