[Pythonmac-SIG] More testers needed: Fix installer

[Bob Ippolito]

On Dec 27, 2004, at 8:08 AM, Jack Jansen wrote:

> Ok, Bob, you win:-)
>
> I've created an installer package that replaces the Makefile after a 
> simple test that you're actually running 10.3 and have that Makefile 
> in the right place (i.e. didn't mess too much with your installation).
>
> If people could test this that'd be nice. Again, I'm especially 
> interested in feedback from people running 10.2 or 10.4 (where the 
> installer should refuse to run, with a decent message).
>
> You can find the package at 
> <http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython/JaguarPythonFix.dmg>.

The Makefile is missing the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 before the 
$(CC) .. which means that for most people, it won't compile extension 
modules, because not everyone has this set in their login scripts..

IIRC, The tradeoff is that distutils is *extremely* stupid and will no 
longer compile c++ modules correctly because it expects the compiler to 
be the first word in the variable expanded LDSHARED.  This may or may 
not also be a problem with SciPy distutils.

-bob