[Pythonmac-SIG] wxPython build issue

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 4-feb-2006, at 3:02, Kevin Ollivier wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> On Feb 3, 2006, at 5:29 PM, Bill Northcott wrote:
>
>> On 04/02/2006, at 12:00 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>>> The issue only arises using Python 2.4.x on Tiger.  It does not
>>>> arise
>>>> with Python 2.3.x on Tiger or Python 2.4.x on Panther (MacOS  
>>>> 10.3.x)
>>>
>>> On top of that, it should only happen if you're using a Python
>>> 2.4.x build on Tiger that was compiled on Panther.
>>
>> Why would it not happen if Python 2.4 was built on Tiger?
>
> Quoting a message Ronald wrote a few days back, when we were
> discussing universal builds:
>
> "Python's configure has hardcoded that OSX 10.2 and 10.4 must not
> have _POSIX_SOURCE and friends defined. Annoyingly this means that if
> you build Python on Panther you'll have to patch the build if you
> want to build extensions on Tiger."
>
> In other words, on Tiger and Jaguar, Python does not define
> _POSIX_C_SOURCE, in which case everything goes smoothly. I didn't
> remember this point until Bob mentioned the patch...

My patch for this is here: http://www.python.org/sf/1416559

This turns of _POSIX_C_SOURCE for 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4.

Ronald

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