[Pythonmac-SIG] [4suite-dev] Build Errors on Mac OS X (Tiger)

[Frank Steele]

 On 10/17/05 4:49 PM, "Jeremy Kloth" <jeremy.kloth at fourthought.com> wrote:

> I'm CC'ing 4suite and pythonmac-sig to hopefully have someone there with a
> concrete answer.
> 
> On Monday 17 October 2005 2:23 pm, you wrote:
>>   It appears that somewhere during the compile process,
>> "MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET", an environment variable, is looked up,
>> and 10.4 is an invalid value. The build script then defaults to 10.1,
>> and the build fails because "dynamic_lookup can't be used with
>> MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable set to: 10.1".
> 
> What Python version are you using, stock Apple, MacPython 2.4 or custom?  I
> think that PythonTigerFix(?) may fix this?  I have no idea personally, just
> what I've read on pythonmac-sig.
> 
Box-stock Apple Python 2.3.5. I was installing this on a box I don't monkey
around with, so there would be less chance of a problem. Looks like the
"Tiger Fix" is for 2.4.1.

>>   Is it possible you guys have an internal build that addresses this?
>> Has anyone tried changing the environment variable to 10.3, since
>> there's not a lot on the Python side of the world that changes that
>> much in 10.4? Did it work?
> 
> I'm sorry to say that we do not actively develop on or for MacOSX.  We try to
> keep our software working on it, of course, but rely on user contributions
> and whatever testing is possible on SF's compile farm (which is only 10.2).

Okay.

Frank