[Pythonmac-SIG] universal binary installer, take 1

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Thursday, March 02, 2006, at 02:20PM, Jerome Laheurte <jerome at gandalf.fraca7.homeunix.net> wrote:

>On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
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>> On 28-feb-2006, at 22:07, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>>>
>>> Known issues:
>>> - "regrtest -uall" crashes somewhere in test_db3 (bus error)
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>> I don't understand why yet, but the build seems to have picked up
>> another version of libdb that I had expected. _bsddb.so is a PPC only
>> binary and claims to be 4.3.29 instead of the 4.4.x version I wanted
>> it to be.
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>Python 2.4.2 doesn't support 4.4; I submitted a patch here:
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>http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1441660&group_id=5470&atid=305470
>

The tree at svn.pythonmac.org already contains that patch, maybe it is based on the 2.4.x branch of python instead of the 2.4.2 release. Bob?

test_bsddb3 seems to behave better after I patched setup.py to look for bsddb at the right location.

Ronald

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