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How to build Python from a source distribution.
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NOTE: These notes are for building a Python from a machine-independent
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source distribution, *not* for building a Python from a mac-specific
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source distribution.
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You will need a Python source distribution in tar form. So, the
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first thing you need is a tar program for the mac. Suntar is
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reasonable and can be found at the info-mac sites. Edit the
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preferences to make it extract C sources with creator CWIE
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and .py files as text files with creator Pyth, this will save
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you work later.
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You will also need CodeWarrior 11. If you have another development
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environment you are on your own, basically.
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When you've extracted everything you may have to unpack the
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.hqx files in Mac:Resources and Mac:mwerks:Projects (but suntar
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may have done this for you already).
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You have to remove Modules:fmmodule.c, the SGI fm module, which has a
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name conflict with the Mac Fmmodule.c.
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Next, create your build directories. I use the following naming
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convention:
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build.macppc.shared PowerPC shared-library
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build.mac68k.stand 68K non-shared
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and there are also projects for ppc standalone and some others, they
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may be useful at times. The project files expect the build directories
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to be located right in the main python folder, if you put them elsewhere
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you will have to edit the access paths.
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Move MWCPythonCoreRuntime.µ, PythonCore.µ, PythonPPC.µ and
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PythonApplet.µ (from the Mac:mwerks:projects folder) to
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build.macppc.shared, move Python68K.µ to build.mac68k.stand.
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Now, your folder structure more-or-less resembles that of what comes
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with the mac source distribution. Read the file Mac:Demo:building.html
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for further instructions.
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Jack Jansen, CWI, 28 May 1997.
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