[Pythonmac-SIG] More testers needed: Fix installer

[Bob Ippolito]

On Dec 27, 2004, at 12:09 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>
> 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.

Correct, however, it looks like Jack has already patched 2.5 so that it 
will set MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET to the configure time value if not 
already set, so it can be injected into 2.3.0 with this pkg fix and 
backported to 2.4.1 and maybe 2.3.5.

-bob