Howdy Folks, I need some help here. I'd like to see Python build out of the box with a ./configure, make, make test, and make install on Darwin and Mac OS X. Having it build out of the box will make it easier to be incorporated into both Darwin and the base Mac OS X distribution - although not for the initial release of the latter but definitely doable for subsequent releases. In order to do this, I need to have it build cleanly on HFS and UFS filesystems. Under HFS system, I've got a name conflict due to case insenstivity between the build target and the "Python" directory that forces me to build with a -with-suffix command on HFS and manually change the name after install - which is an automatic knockout factor when it comes to incorporating it in an automatic build system. Not to mention a problem with unix newbies trying to build from source... Last night, I did some quick investigation to determine the best way to fix this problem as documented in PEP-42 in the build section and Sourceforge bug 122215 and determined that the easiest and least error prone way was to change the directory name Python to PyCore. It's apparent from the comments that I'm missing something here as the reaction has been negative so far - to the point where Guido has rejected the patch. Can someone explain what I'd missing that's causing such strong feelings? My second question is how do I resolve the name conflict in an approved way? It's been suggested that a build directory be created (/src/build ?) and that the target be place here. The problem that I had with this suggestion is that it would require an additional layer to execute the target and I wasn't sure what impact it whould have on running python from a new directory... which is the reason I took the more known path. :-) Bottom line, come March 24th, Mac OS X 1.0 will be released and as of July 2001 all Macintoshes will come with Mac OS X. I'd like to see Python be easily built on "out of the box" these machines - rather come with a haphazardous list of instructions or commands as currently needed for 1.5.2 and 2.0 releases. And hopefully, at some point be incorporated into the base Mac OS X installation... - Dan Wolfe
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