[Pythonmac-SIG] building extension problems on OS X python 2.5.1

[William Kyngesburye]

On May 4, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:

> William Kyngesburye wrote:
>> Getting HDF5 to build universal from configure-make is very messy,
>> though there is one trick that can make it very easy.
>
> Do tell!
>
The easy part is using this trick:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20061025213851279

I used a much messier method before I found this, but had also  
switched to an Xcode project I made for it, so I haven't tried the  
ccub trick with HDF5 or NetCDF yet.

The ccub trick depends on fixing some endian stuff in the HDF  
source.  There are a couple endian defines to conditionalize, and a  
program to disable that is built and run during compilation.


I'll follow up with the full info when I have more time later.

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