[Pythonmac-SIG] Back-porting Python 2.3 to Mac OS X 10.5?

[Jack Jansen]

Brad,
there's only one potential problem and that's the PPC/Intel issue. If  
you have a PowerPC mac (or you can live with running Python under  
Rosetta on an Intel Mac) I would first try to download a binary 2.3.X.  
My guess is that there's a 90% chance that it works. The issue might  
be finding compatible binary installers for Tcl/Tk and wxPython.

If the binary installer doesn't work just build the source. BUT (large  
but, here): don't try to build for Intel, only for PPC. If you have a  
PPPC mac that's easy. If you don't have one it's going to be a bit of  
a problem. The normal way to build for one platform on another  
platform is through the --host crosscompilation support of configure,  
but Python doesn't like that. Try starting with running the whole  
configure/build with CFLAGS="-arch ppc" in the environment.
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Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
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