Cleaned up Mac OS X section to the current state of affairs.
diff --git a/README b/README
index fc44992..caca9e8 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -391,27 +391,25 @@
platform as well. This should be resolved in time for a
future release.
-Mac OS X 10.0: Run configure with "./configure --with-suffix=.exe".
- This generates executable file: 'python.exe' (it cannot be named
- 'python' on an HFS or HFS+ disk as the file name clashes with
- directory 'Python'). One of the regular expression tests fails
+Mac OS X 10: One of the regular expression tests fails
with a SEGV due to the small stack size used by default, if you do
"limit stacksize 2048" before "make test" it should work.
- On naked Darwin you may have to add the configure option
+ On naked Darwin you may want to add the configure option
"--disable-toolbox-glue" to disable the glue code for the Carbon
- interface modules. (The modules themselves are currently not built
- by default as they are experimental, on real OSX you can enable them
- in setup.py).
+ interface modules. The modules themselves are currently only built
+ if you add the --enable-framework option, see below.
On a clean OSX /usr/local does not exist. Do a "sudo mkdir -m 775 /usr/local"
- before you do a make install, this is better than "sudo make install"
+ before you do a make install. Alternatively, do "sudo make install"
which installs everything as superuser.
You may want to try the configure option "--enable-framework" which
installs Python as a framework. The location can be set as argument
to the --enable-framework option (default /Library/Frameworks). You may
- also want to check out ./Mac/OSX for building a Python.app.
+ also want to check out ./Mac/OSX for building a Python.app. You may also
+ want to manually install a symlink in /usr/local/bin/python to the
+ executable deep down in the framework.
Cygwin: Cygwin Python builds OOTB when configured as follows: