[Pythonmac-SIG] 4Suite troubles

[Joel Bender]

Hi all,


I've been knocking myself around with XML tools and applications and 
4Suite <http://4suite.org/>, on the Apple installed version of Python.

For the installation to be successful, a couple things need to 
happen.  First, the bogus '-arch i386' needs to be removed from:

     /usr/lib/python2.2/config/Makefile

This has been mentioned before, and hopefully Apple will fix it.

Second, after the 'python setup.py build' and 'python setup.py 
install' which will be successful, you need to do this strange dance:

% cat >foo.txt
_initcDomlettec
% sudo nmedit -s foo.txt /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/Ft/Xml/cDomlettec.so

Can someone make some suggestions about what to change in the 4Suite 
distribution that will fix this problem?  Apparently the nice folks 
at Fourthought have tried a variety of things that work with some 
versions of Python but break others.

I would be happy to try something and provide feedback to both 
communities.  I can dance if you show me the steps, but don't be 
surprised if I don't seem to know where my feet are!


Joel