Build Python on OS X with clang

I've been fooling around with clang as a gcc replacement. (I'd love to have Xcode 4 but it's not worth the $99). Here we build Python 2.7 in record time:

mkdir ~/temp cd ~/temp curl -O http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.1/Python-2.7.1.tgz tar -zxf Python-2.7.1.tgz mkdir Python date

The date output:

Wed Jan 12 15:35:26 EST 2011

cd Python-2.7.1/ export CC=clang ./configure --prefix=/Users/telliott_admin/temp/Python --without-gcc make && make install date

Wed Jan 12 15:38:02 EST 2011

2 minutes and 36 seconds!

~/temp/Python/bin/python Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jan 12 2011, 15:36:42) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Clang Compiler] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.version '2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jan 12 2011, 15:36:42) \n[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Clang Compiler]' [1]+ Stopped ~/temp/Python/bin/python

The time stamp is interesting..

> file ~/temp/Python/bin/python /Users/telliott_admin/temp/Python/bin/python: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

cd .. curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py ~/temp/Python/bin/python distribute_setup.py > cd Python/bin > ls 2to3 pydoc python2.7-config easy_install python smtpd.py easy_install-2.7 python-config idle python2.7 ~/temp/Python/bin/easy_install-2.7 numpy .. ImportError: No module named numpy.distutils

just hit it again and it'll finish

~/temp/Python/bin/python Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jan 12 2011, 15:36:42) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Clang Compiler] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from numpy import * >>>

However, I was unable to do a framework build to this location, and I was unable to build matplotlib either, at least so far.