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The readline-libedit-2.6.5.patch is attached.
The patch was applied and python built in several configurations on Mac
OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). There is no regression (details below).
Can somebody else test on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)?
32-bit
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Configuration with system libedit::
 ./configure --prefix=${HOME}/opt/snapshot/2.6.5 \
 BASECFLAGS="-arch i386" \
 CFLAGS="-arch i386" \
 LDFLAGS="-arch i386" \
 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6
Configuration with GNU readline 6.1::
 ./configure --prefix=${HOME}/opt/snapshot/gnurl/2.6.5 \
 BASECFLAGS="-arch i386" \
 CFLAGS="-arch i386" \
 CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include" \
 LDFLAGS="-arch i386 -L/opt/local/lib" \
 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6
Failed tests for both builds:
- test_asynchat
- test_smtplib
64-bit
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Configuration with system libedit::
 ./configure --prefix=${HOME}/opt/snapshot/2.6.5-64 \
 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6
Configuration with GNU readline 6.1::
 ./configure --prefix=${HOME}/opt/snapshot/gnurl/2.6.5-64 \
 CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include" \
 LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib" \
 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6checking
Failed tests for both builds:
- test_asynchat
- test_macostools
- test_smtplib
Unexpected skips:
- test_dl
Universal
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Configuration with system libedit::
 ./configure --prefix=${HOME}/opt/snapshot \
 BASECFLAGS="-arch x86_64 -arch i386" \
 CFLAGS="-arch x86_64 -arch i386" \
 LDFLAGS="-arch x86_64 -arch i386" \
 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6
Configuration with GNU readline 6.1::
 ./configure --prefix=${HOME}/opt/snapshot/gnurl \
 BASECFLAGS="-arch x86_64 -arch i386" \
 CFLAGS="-arch x86_64 -arch i386" \
 CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include" \
 LDFLAGS="-arch x86_64 -arch i386 -L/opt/local/lib" \
 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6
Failed tests for both builds:
- test_asynchat
- test_macostools
- test_smtplib
Unexpected skips:
- test_dl
when run as 64-bit or 32-bit executable.
Errors in both asynchat and smtplib are caused by the same issue in
asyncore.py. A typical error output::
 error: uncaptured python exception, closing channel
 <test.test_asynchat.echo_client at 0x1b112b0>
 (<class 'socket.error'>:[Errno 9]
 Bad file descriptor
 [/Users/zvezdan/opt/snapshot/2.6.5/lib/python2.6/asyncore.py|
 readwrite|107]
 [/Users/zvezdan/opt/snapshot/2.6.5/lib/python2.6/asyncore.py|
 handle_expt_event|441]
 [<string>|getsockopt|1]
 [/Users/zvezdan/opt/snapshot/2.6.5/lib/python2.6/socket.py|_dummy|165])
but this is not caused by readline patch.