[Pythonmac-SIG] Building 4Suite on Panther (Mac OS X 10.3.x)

[Paul Miller]

>There are two relatively small platform bugs in the 4Suite build process 
>that prevent it from building properly on Panther.  This is from looking 
>at 1.0a3, not all of the tests passed and I don't have any experience with 
>4Suite to determine whether or not these are "expected" so I am not going 
>to put it in my PackageManager repository yet.

Wow Bob - many thanks for looking into this.

>1)  It assumes a really brain-dead Python and tries to link it with 
>-flat_namespace.  That's not necessary nor desired (except MAYBE on OS X 
>10.2's awfully broken Python 2.2.0, but you don't need -flat_namespace if 
>you use -bundle_loader).  Edit Ft/Lib/DistExt/PackageManager.py and remove 
>the code that adds '-flat_namespace' to the linker flags if the platform 
>is 'darwin'.

I couldn't find any -flat_namespace references in PackageManager.py. I do 
have 1.0a3.

>2) It assumes that you can get a pointer to environ from a bundle/dylib, 
>you can't.  Change the "environ" trap in Ft/Server/Server/src/process.c to 
>the following:

This change I made and the setup process was able to complete. But when I 
try to use Ft.Xml.Domlette.Node, it fails to find the Node type. Assuming 
Node is implemented in the C code, could the first issue be causing the 
bundle not to load, thus it not being able to find Node?

Any other ideas on fixing #1?