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

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