[Pythonmac-SIG] Problems building 2.3.5 source on MacOS X Tiger

Bill Northcott w.northcott at unsw.edu.au
Sun Jul 24 08:11:08 CEST 2005


On 24/07/2005, at 4:01 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> I am trying to build Python 2.3.5 sources on MacOS X 10.4.2 using  
>> gcc-4.
>>
>
> I think you should try it with gcc 3.3 instead.

I am well aware that it work better with gcc-3.3.  However, gcc-4 is  
the default compiler for Tiger and the Makefile is just incorrect.   
Libtool should not be invoked to build a shared library because it is  
very dependent on operating system and compiler in ways which are not  
documented.

Bill


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