[Pythonmac-SIG] dlopenflags and sharing symbols across python extension modules

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 10-mrt-2006, at 23:25, Zachary Pincus wrote:

>> If you come up with a patch for (2) against Python's svn trunk that
>> is tested and works on 10.2 then I'll commit it.  It's not
>> appropriate to make this sort of change against Python 2.4,
>> though.  *Maybe* for the universal branch that Ronald and I are
>> doing, because that's also unlikely to be merged with the 2.4 branch.
>
> Well, after wasting the better part of a day tracking down a computer
> capable of running 10.2, installing 10.2 on it, getting the latest
> updates and the newest 10.2 developer tools, I find that neither
> python 2.5 from svn (today's snapshot or a checkout from the 8th)
> *NOR* the svn snapshot of python 2.4 will build on 10.2.8.
>
> Is python 2.5 (or even 2.4) supposed to be officially supported for
> 10.2? (It certainly doesn't seem to be based on what's on the python
> web pages.) If not, I rather resent the goose chase I've been sent on
> just trying to submit a patch to get python to work the way the
> documentation says it does.

Do you know why it doesn't build? A patch to fix build problems would
of course be appricated :-). I know of nobody that actively
supports Python 2.4 or 2.5 on Jaguar, which means stuff will break.


Ronald