[Pythonmac-SIG] python 2.3.4 on Mac OS X 10.3.6 is working - upgraded standard installation

[Robert Valsjö]

Thanx!

Should I do this for python 2.4c1 also?

/rob

On 2004-11-30, at 17.13, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> On Nov 30, 2004, at 4:04 AM, Robert Valsjö wrote:
>
>> I have one question though. I've read your info about patching the 
>> python 2.3.4 source Makefile, but since I'm not a c-programmer, can 
>> you please tell me what to do after I downloaded the python 2.3.4 
>> source and untared it?
>
> Python installs its own compile time Makefile so that third party 
> extensions can be compiled with the same options.  The Makefile 
> patching I have described is a patch intended to be done to this 
> *installed* Makefile, NOT to the Python source code.  If you want to 
> patch the Python sources, you would ideally it do it configure.in, run 
> autoconf, and then send a patch to http://sf.net/projects/python/ :)
>
> Anyway, to see where the Makefile is located, do:
>
> python -c "import sys,os; print os.path.join(sys.prefix, 'lib', 
> 'python2.3', 'config', 'Makefile')"
>
> Once you know where this Makefile is, open it up with your favorite 
> text editor (probably using sudo).
> Navigate to approximately line 98 and replace the two configuration 
> variables LDSHARED and BLDSHARED with the following:
>
> LDSHARED=   env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -bundle 
> -undefined dynamic_lookup
> BLDSHARED=  env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -bundle 
> -undefined dynamic_lookup
>
> Save the file.
>
> -bob
>
>

Robert Valsjö
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