Issue 6877: this patch makes it possible to link the readline extension

to the libedit emulation of the readline API on OSX 10.5 or later.

This also adds a minimal testsuite for readline to check that the
history manipuation functions have the same interface with both
C libraries.
This commit is contained in:
Ronald Oussoren 2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00:00
parent 956f4b2520
commit 9f20d9d0ee
5 changed files with 135 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -546,16 +546,16 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
# readline
do_readline = self.compiler_obj.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'readline')
if platform == 'darwin': # and os.uname()[2] < '9.':
# MacOSX 10.4 has a broken readline. Don't try to build
# the readline module unless the user has installed a fixed
# readline package
# FIXME: The readline emulation on 10.5 is better, but the
# readline module doesn't compile out of the box.
if find_file('readline/rlconf.h', inc_dirs, []) is None:
do_readline = False
if platform == 'darwin':
os_release = int(os.uname()[2].split('.')[0])
if os_release < 9:
# MacOSX 10.4 has a broken readline. Don't try to build
# the readline module unless the user has installed a fixed
# readline package
if find_file('readline/rlconf.h', inc_dirs, []) is None:
do_readline = False
if do_readline:
if sys.platform == 'darwin':
if platform == 'darwin' and os_release < 9:
# In every directory on the search path search for a dynamic
# library and then a static library, instead of first looking
# for dynamic libraries on the entiry path.