Compiling python 2.3.5 on Mac OS X Tiger

Tiger comes with python 2.3.5 bundled, which is nice, but sometimes you want
to recompile it, or you want to add site-packages to it without disturbing
the standard OS installation. Here’s what I had to do to compile it, and
python-ldap with it.

Building python 2.3.5:

./configurevi pyconfig.h #undef _POSIX_C_SOURCE #undef _XOPEN_SOURCE #define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES #define SETPGRP_HAVE_ARGmakemake testsudo make install

Updated: Added commenting-out of _POSIX_C_SOURCE, otherwise ESHUTDOWN cannot be imported from errno (which makes asyncore fail). Added SETPGRP_HAVE_ARG.

Building Berkeley DB 4.3.28 (needed by OpenLDAP):

cd build_unix../dist/configuremakesudo make install

Building OpenLDAP 2.2.26:

CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.3/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.3/lib ./configurevi config.status # replace s%@LIBS@%%g with: s%@LIBS@%-lresolv%g./config.statusmake dependmakesudo make install

Building python-ldap 2.0.7:

vi setup.cfg library_dirs = /usr/local/lib include_dirs = /usr/local/include # comment libs = sasl2 in libs: libs = ldap_r lber ssl crypto/usr/local/bin/python2.3 setup.py buildsudo /usr/local/bin/python2.3 setup.py install