[Pythonmac-SIG] Matplotlib, other libs and the Universal Python

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Sat Jul 15 02:03:38 CEST 2006


On Jul 14, 2006, at 4:48 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> I use the script that SDL uses, gcc-fat.sh. It's a compiler frontend
>> that compiles 10.2 PPC with gcc3.3 and 10.4 i386 with gcc4. Not
>> compatible with everything, but definitely works with libpng.
>
> Not for me, but I have no idea what I'm doing. I tried:
>
> ./configure CC="sh gcc-fat.sh"
>
> and got:
>
> checking for gcc... sh gcc-fat.sh
> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure:  
> error: C
> compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
>
> config.log wasn't helpful
>
> So I tried making gcc-fat.sh executable, and:
>
> ./configure CC=./gcc-fat.sh
>
> Same problem.
>
> It makes me wish I actually understood this stuff!
>
> Off to try some more things....

I dunno, I'm pretty sure it worked for me. I definitely have a  
universal libpng that I built myself. Here it is:

http://undefined.org/python/libpng-1.1.2-universal.tgz

-bob



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