[Pythonmac-SIG] install again?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 8, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>
> On 7-feb-2006, at 0:59, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>>
>>> Bob, what do you think the timescale is for a universal build? If  
>>> it's
>>> soon, then we should work on re-0writing the web site as though it's
>>> ready to go.
>>
>> I'd say soon... The only issues left are to sort out the distribution
>> scripts and some more testing I guess.
>
> Having a working build environment would also be nice.  'make  
> frameworkinstall'
> fails if builddir != srcdir. I'm working on this right now.

It worked for me.. I never build in srcdir.  What's the problem?

> BTW. The distribution script is mostly done but I stopped because
> I got annoyed by the aformentioned build problems. Hopefully I can  
> finish it
> this week.
>
> BTW2. Does anyone know why the python is linked using c++? Would  
> that cause
> problems if you build python itself using gcc 4 on Tiger and then  
> use g++ 3.3
> to build extensions on 10.3 (say because you want to build wxPython)?

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-July/036775.html

"""
This change was needed to support various C++ compilers that would
fail to link Modules/ccpython.cc with the C compiler.
"""

The question then becomes, why does the main program need to be  
compiled with C++?

-bob