[ python-Feature Requests-1218333 ] Create a fat build on darwin

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Feature Requests item #1218333, was opened at 2005-06-10 18:34
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Category: Build
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Create a fat build on darwin

Initial Comment:
Apple recently announced that they will switch to intel CPU's for their 
systems. They request that vendors build fat binaries for software. 
IMHO the python build process should be changed to make this 
easily possible.

Areas that (might) need changing:
* autoconf checks for CPU features (endianness, sizes of basic 
types). That won't work with cross-builds. A possible solution: create 
a pycpufeatures.h that hardcodes the information.

* distutils might need to be taught about creating fat binaries.

* It might be necessary to link to a specific SDK, this in turn might 
require changes in the autoconf machinery.

NOTE: I intend to do some work on this in due time.

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