Changes to the OSX section:
- 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.
diff --git a/README b/README
index de1ec59..0b00b0d 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -460,16 +460,23 @@
On a clean OSX /usr/local does not exist. Do a
"sudo mkdir -m 775 /usr/local"
- before you do a make install. Alternatively, do "sudo make install"
- which installs everything as superuser.
+ before you do a make install. It is probably not a good idea to
+ 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"
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. You may also want to manually
- install a symlink in /usr/local/bin/python to the executable
- deep down in the framework.
+ /Library/Frameworks). A framework install is probably needed if you
+ want to use any Aqua-based GUI toolkit (whether Tkinter, wxPython,
+ Carbon, Cocoa or anything else).
+
+ See Mac/OSX/README for more information on framework builds.
Cygwin: With recent (relative to the time of writing, 2001-12-19)
Cygwin installations, there are problems with the interaction