>Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> added the comment:
>
>There are various steps in the Mac build process where the files are
>copied from the build source to the build destination and then .svn
>directories (among other things) are removed.  Perhaps you tried building
>using the source directory as the destination directory?
>

See my previous message. The question is whether I should be doing the build from the src directory. It works fine in all respects -- it creates a build subdirectory and does everything in there. For IDLE.app it does create a .svn but for PythonLauncher.app it doesn't. Either "make clean" or something else I'm not doing should remove all of the .app packages entirely or the build process should leave behind a .svn in each of the .app packages. Are there build instructions somewhere that say I should be doing something other than what I'm doing? I really want to know. I've been hanging out in the background studying, using, and teaching Python for years, building it on Mac G4's and an Intel MacBook Pro, and even on Window machines, but am only now starting to contribute to the community, so I appreciate any guidance or clarification anyone wants to offer.