[Pythonmac-SIG] Building 4Suite on Panther (Mac OS X 10.3.x)

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 3, 2004, at 9:44 AM, Paul Miller wrote:

>> There are two relatively small platform bugs in the 4Suite build 
>> process that prevent it from building properly on Panther.  This is 
>> from looking at 1.0a3, not all of the tests passed and I don't have 
>> any experience with 4Suite to determine whether or not these are 
>> "expected" so I am not going to put it in my PackageManager 
>> repository yet.
>
> Wow Bob - many thanks for looking into this.
>
>> 1)  It assumes a really brain-dead Python and tries to link it with 
>> -flat_namespace.  That's not necessary nor desired (except MAYBE on 
>> OS X 10.2's awfully broken Python 2.2.0, but you don't need 
>> -flat_namespace if you use -bundle_loader).  Edit 
>> Ft/Lib/DistExt/PackageManager.py and remove the code that adds 
>> '-flat_namespace' to the linker flags if the platform is 'darwin'.
>
> I couldn't find any -flat_namespace references in PackageManager.py. I 
> do have 1.0a3.

It's in Ft/Lib/DistExt/BuildExt.py not 
Ft/Lib/DistExt/PackageManager.py.. sorry, must not have been paying 
attention.

>
>> 2) It assumes that you can get a pointer to environ from a 
>> bundle/dylib, you can't.  Change the "environ" trap in 
>> Ft/Server/Server/src/process.c to the following:
>
> This change I made and the setup process was able to complete. But 
> when I try to use Ft.Xml.Domlette.Node, it fails to find the Node 
> type. Assuming Node is implemented in the C code, could the first 
> issue be causing the bundle not to load, thus it not being able to 
> find Node?
>
> Any other ideas on fixing #1?

How about some example code that should work (but doesn't)?  I don't 
know (or have a desire to learn) this API.

-bob
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