[Pythonmac-SIG] More testers needed: Fix installer

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 27-dec-04, at 17:44, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>
> 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.

I don't think this can be fixed without patching distutils. The patch 
shouldn't be too hard, but it may be too close to a 2.3.5 release to 
get it in there.

Ronald