[Distutils] Mac OS 9

[Jack Jansen]

On dinsdag, mei 20, 2003, at 17:20 Europe/Amsterdam, Robin Becker wrote:

>> What do you mean by "not getting past the build stage"? Do you get
>> errors, or do things simply stop? And when the machine locks up, can
>> you get it going again with command-.?
>>
> In Mac OS 9 at least once the machine locked and the python instances
> was unkillable. Interestingly after the reboot we tried again and
> although the build didn't continue we at least got a built .mcp which
> was where the distutils build broke down.

Hmm, interesting, I've never seen this. But the bad news is that I 
really have no idea how to go about debugging this...
>
>> There is a problem with distutils when running MacPython 2.2.2 on OSX:
>> it can't find one of its include directories. Thre's an SF bug report
>> filed for this (740424).
>
> we're just trying out OS X now. Someone tells me I can use GCC derived
> tools and expertise :)

If you use a unix-based Python (which means Apple-installed 
/usr/bin/python 2.2, or MacPython-2.3, or any python you built from 
source yourself) then you are indeed talking standard Unix stuff and 
there's no problem.

If you for some reason need to use MacPython 2.2.X or MacPython-OS9 2.3 
then you need CodeWarrior and you will run into bug 740424. But I'm 
trying to fix it before 2.2.3 comes out.
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