[Pythonmac-SIG] building universal binaries

[Kevin Ollivier]

Hi,

On Jan 25, 2006, at 2:59 PM, bear wrote:

> Kevin Ollivier wrote:
>> How exactly are you doing this? Are you passing these flags into  
>> configure, or editing the configure script? I'm seeing that it  
>> does matter where in the configure script the options are added.  
>> From my tests so far, the test 'failures' in the configure script  
>> are incorrect - it seems these options just trip up the tests  
>> somehow. (I think, for example, the multi-architecture flags don't  
>> work with flags for a "dry run" compile from what I've read) I've  
>> found that for wx, adding the options after these tests worked  
>> correctly.
> That's the difference then - I'm setting the env vars and letting  
> configure do it's thing.  I don't control the configure script and  
> was trying to see if I could build with minimal patching.

Oh, BTW, I forgot to mention this but Apple's changes to build Python  
2.3 Universal are available from here:

http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/tarballs/other/ 
python-16.tar.gz

The fixes dir has all the changes they made to the source files.

Thanks,

Kevin

>> I've found that without the -isysroot, it creates/links "single  
>> architecture" objects even when multiple -arch flags are  
>> specified. ;-/ So you'll need to be able to specify those flags  
>> but after the basic tests are run. At least, that's how I was able  
>> to succeed with wx.
>
> That does help a lot - let me first hack the script and then pass  
> upstream any changes I've had to make.
>