[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Mac/OSX fixapplepython23.py, 1.2, 1.3

[Jack Jansen]

On 2-jan-05, at 22:35, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> On 2-jan-05, at 4:40, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>>> +SCRIPT="""#!/bin/sh
>>>> +export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3
>>>> +exec %s "${@}"
>>>
>>> This script should check to see if MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is 
>>> already set.  If I have some reason to set 
>>> MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4 for compilation (say I'm compiling an 
>>> extension that requires 10.4 features) then I'm going to have some 
>>> serious problems with this fix.
>>
>> I was going to do that, but then I thought it didn't make any sense, 
>> because this script is *only* used in the context of Apple-provided 
>> Python 2.3. And setting MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET to anything other 
>> than 10.3 (be it lower or higher) while compiling an extension for 
>> Apple's 2.3 is going to produce disappointing results anyway.
>>
>> But, if I've missed a use case, please enlighten me.
>
> You're right, of course.  I had realized that I was commenting on the 
> fixpython script after I had replied, but my concern is still 
> applicable to whatever solution is used for Python 2.4.1.  Anything 
> lower than 10.3 is of course an error, in either case.

2.4.1 will install this fix into Apple-installed Python 2.3 (if 
applicable, i.e. if you're installing 2.4.1 on 10.3), but for its own 
use it will have the newer distutils, which understands that it needs 
to pick up MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET from the Makefile, so it'll never 
see these scripts.
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