[Pythonmac-SIG] porting a python extension to OS X 10.2

[Stephen A. Langer]

At 11:31 PM -0400 10/3/02, Ryan Wilcox wrote:
>On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 11:26 PM, Stephen A. Langer wrote:
>
>>  Fink's "apt-get install imagemagick" on
>>10.2 installs defective shared libraries which I was trying to link
>>with.  Linking with the static libraries produced by "fink install
>>imagemagick" works just fine
>
>I believe this is because alot of fink binaries haven't been updated
>to use the new ABIs in Jaguar - Or something like that.
>
>That's why you need to fink install everything... and not trust
>apt-get. At least for a while, until they update everything.

My impression was that "apt-get install xxx" would say "package not 
found" or something like that if xxx hadn't been updated for 10.2. 
So I was apt-getting things first, and only fink installing them if 
apt-get failed.  Apparently that's not the thing to do.

  -- Steve

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