[Pythonmac-SIG] PyXML install problems

[Bob Ippolito]

On Apr 4, 2006, at 6:13 PM, Todd O'Bryan wrote:

> OK, I successfully installed it. (Thanks for the simple-but-time-
> consuming-download-wise fix, Bob.)
>
> Now, how do I donate the binary back to the cause?

The current strategy would be to either build an egg for it, or a  
bdist_mpkg (probably the best idea for packages that don't use  
setuptools yet).  Currently the version of py2app that should be used  
with a universal Python lives here (there hasn't bean a release yet):
http://svn.red-bean.com/bob/py2app/branches/py2app-0.2-maint/

If you check that out and do:
python setup.py bdist_mpkg --open

That will install py2app and related tools.  After that's done,  
you'll have a new bdist_mpkg shell command which you can just run in  
any directory with a setup.py and it will (more likely than not)  
build a .mpkg out of it.

> P.S. I'm willing to do some others, assuming it's not too
> complicated. MySQL-python just released 1.2.1, and 1.2.0 is the most
> recent available binary. I was able to install it, I think, but I got
> this warning when I tried to build.
>
> gcc -arch ppc -arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -g
> -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup build/temp.macosx-10.4-fat-2.4/
> _mysql.o -L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient_r -lz -lm -o build/
> lib.macosx-10.4-fat-2.4/_mysql.so
> /usr/bin/ld: for architecture i386
> /usr/bin/ld: warning /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient_r.a
> archive's cputype (18, architecture ppc) does not match cputype (7)
> for specified -arch flag: i386 (can't load from it)

That means your MySQL libraries are PPC only and won't be compatible  
with Python running on i386.  You'll want to obtain a universal build  
of MySQL to link against.

-bob