[Pythonmac-SIG] Pythonmac-SIG Digest, Vol 35, Issue 51

[daniel at brightfire.com]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ronald Oussoren" <ronaldoussoren at mac.com>
> To: daniel at brightfire.com
> Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Pythonmac-SIG Digest, Vol 35, Issue 51
> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:38:11 +0200
> 
> Sigh, the universal python build already runs on 10.3.9 and 
> supports  ppc and i386. I don't have a PPC64 box so cannot even try 
> to support  this. Supporting this in the main build would also 
> require more  special casing because ppc64 processes can only use a 
> small part of  the OSX ABI.
> 
> Ronald

Not saying it should, I was just making the point that FAT binaries can be constructed in more than even two ways. So it seems the numpy build is treating the 'arch' flags as command line options that can be logically combined and not as seperate binary build selectors as it should. Sorry for trying to help. I am approriately chastised now.