error building python24 on mac os x

Jann Röder roederja at student.ethz.ch
Wed May 16 21:53:06 PDT 2007


I put this fix into the portfile, and it seems to work fine.

Boey Maun Suang wrote:
> 
> 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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