[Python-Dev] Added a machine-dependent file to the core
Neil Schemenauer
nas@python.ca
Mon, 7 May 2001 06:14:52 -0700
Jack Jansen wrote:
> To my surprise I noticed that the whole configure/Makefile.pre.in/setup setup
> of Python does not allow for an easy addition of a platform-dependent
> sourcefile to the core interpreter (or am I missing something?).
No, its still a big ugly hack. :-)
> This is a bit of functionality I need to port the various Mac
> modules to MacOSX-python. The platform depende sourcefile has
> various glue routines for turning MacOS error codes into
> exceptions and that sort of stuff.
>
> Is it OK if I add a MACHDEP_OBJS to PYTHON_OBJS?
How would this work? Would MACHDEP_OBJS be set by an autoconf
subsitution?
Neil