Cleaned up Mac OS X section to the current state of affairs.

jackjansen · jackjansen · commit 6a77cf12dd6d · 2001-12-06T21:49:02.000Z
diff --git a/README b/README
@@ -391,27 +391,25 @@ Reliant UNIX: The thread support does not compile on Reliant UNIX, and
         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:
 
