[Zope] Zope on Mac OS X Server

[Jeffrey Shell]

This is basically what I did to get it working.  I think the libraries
being in a weird place stem from the --with-next-framework option which
I assume expects to be put into an Openstep framework setup and set's
Pythons paths to be::

.../lib/

instead of the usual::

.../lib/python1.5/

(the source says it's because NeXT's Frameworks do automatic
versioning).  This gets compiled _right into Python!_, but none of the
makefiles and friends seem to catch it.  My blue box STILL refuses to
work (waaa!), so I spend a lot of time in either MacOS 8.6 or MacOS X
Server (mostly in 8.6 due to (a) a better browser, and (b) more familier
tools (yay Alpha!):)).  Thus, I don't have access to that particular bit
of patched Python source right now.  It made things significantly
easier, but was kindof a hack.  I'd be very interested in getting more
information about the NeXT Frameworks and maybe configuring the default
Python makefiles to have a "make framework" option that basically acts
like "make install", but takes into account any existing Python
framework (like Objective Everything's for example) and follows the
right versioning behaviour and other NeXT framework setups.

That LDLIBRARY option not being included in Makefile.pre.in is rather a
pain.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Washington [mailto:jwashin@mail.vt.edu]
Sent: Monday, May 31, 1999 8:39 AM
To: Greg Pierce; zope@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope on Mac OS X Server


Hi, Greg

Yup.  There was a note on the Python site from Jeffrey Shell with his
solution.
http://www.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/1999-May/001106.html

I did something similar.  Essentially:

for Python:
./configure --with-next-framework --with-threads --with-dyld
--prefix=[whatever]

then put libpython1.5.dylib into /usr/lib

No matter what you use for --prefix, this will put python and its
development libraries in a really weird configuration that zope will not
understand properly, so I symlinked the heck out of what I had to make
it look like it was in "standard" locations.  I suppose you could really
move them around, too.

adding LDLIBRARY=/usr/lib/libpython($VERSION).dylib into python's
Makefile.pre.in in /lib/python1.5/config fixes the problems with finding
the dylib

change "sys.executable" to "[whatever]/bin/python" in wo_pcgi.py and
do.py in your zope root.

and I may have forgotten a thing or two, but it should compile and run.

If you take better notes and get it working, you might post those to the
list.  I have a feeling OS X is going to be yet another popular platform
for Zope.

Now I need to try to get Mailman working...

Good luck.

--Jim Washington

> i was wondering if anyone's gotten Zope running on Mac OS X server
> (theoretically, BSD 4.4 compliant).  i already had built Python 1.5.2
> and have been using it w/o incident.  i downloaded the Zope 1.10.2
> sources, and tried a build--which got pretty far along, but then
> failed on a number of counts and never created the config and
> launching files (the best i could tell).
>

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