From f116faa4abb15ce0ebe704a041457a1278732d43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ronald Oussoren Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 11:47:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 78063 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r78063 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-02-07 12:46:38 +0100 (Sun, 07 Feb 2010) | 4 lines Mention a configure warning that almost certainly indicates that configure is picking up a library that doesn't contain all architectures required for a universal build on OSX. ........ --- Mac/README | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/Mac/README b/Mac/README index ec63156e262..c5aa1c544d3 100644 --- a/Mac/README +++ b/Mac/README @@ -145,6 +145,25 @@ Because of the way the script locates the files it needs you have to run it from within the BuildScript directory. The script accepts a number of command-line arguments, run it with --help for more information. +Configure warnings +================== + +The configure script sometimes emits warnings like the one below:: + + configure: WARNING: libintl.h: present but cannot be compiled + configure: WARNING: libintl.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? + configure: WARNING: libintl.h: see the Autoconf documentation + configure: WARNING: libintl.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" + configure: WARNING: libintl.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result + configure: WARNING: libintl.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence + configure: WARNING: ## -------------------------------------- ## + configure: WARNING: ## Report this to http://bugs.python.org/ ## + configure: WARNING: ## -------------------------------------- ## + +This almost always means you are trying to build a universal binary for +Python and have libaries in ``/usr/local`` that don't contain the required +architectures. Temporarily move ``/usr/local`` aside to finish the build. + Odds and ends =============