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- steer people away from installing with sudo
- warn that fink-installed software may cause trouble
- explain why you might want a framework build and point people to
  Mac/OSX/README.
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@ -460,16 +460,23 @@ Mac OS X 10: One of the regular expression tests fails with a segmentation
On a clean OSX /usr/local does not exist. Do a On a clean OSX /usr/local does not exist. Do a
"sudo mkdir -m 775 /usr/local" "sudo mkdir -m 775 /usr/local"
before you do a make install. Alternatively, do "sudo make install" before you do a make install. It is probably not a good idea to
which installs everything as superuser. do "sudo make install" which installs everything as superuser,
as this may later cause problems when installing distutils-based
additions.
Some people have reported problems building Python after using "fink"
to install additional unix software. Disabling fink (remove all references
to /sw from your .profile or .login) should solve this.
You may want to try the configure option "--enable-framework" You may want to try the configure option "--enable-framework"
which installs Python as a framework. The location can be set which installs Python as a framework. The location can be set
as argument to the --enable-framework option (default as argument to the --enable-framework option (default
/Library/Frameworks). You may also want to check out ./Mac/OSX /Library/Frameworks). A framework install is probably needed if you
for building a Python.app. You may also want to manually want to use any Aqua-based GUI toolkit (whether Tkinter, wxPython,
install a symlink in /usr/local/bin/python to the executable Carbon, Cocoa or anything else).
deep down in the framework.
See Mac/OSX/README for more information on framework builds.
Cygwin: With recent (relative to the time of writing, 2001-12-19) Cygwin: With recent (relative to the time of writing, 2001-12-19)
Cygwin installations, there are problems with the interaction Cygwin installations, there are problems with the interaction