[Pythonmac-SIG] Back-porting Python 2.3 to Mac OS X 10.5?

[Brad Knowles]

Brad Knowles wrote:

> Well, ran into my first problem.  Actually, it's the same one that was 
> reported by "j47" in the thread at 
> <http://www.nabble.com/python23-under-leopard-(intel-mac)-td14205076.html>.

Actually, the first clue was at the top of that page.  If you configure with 
"--disable-toolbox-glue", that will turn off the "-u __dummy" stuff:

| case "$enable_toolbox_glue" in
| yes)
|        extra_frameworks="-framework CoreServices -framework Foundation"
|        extra_machdep_objs="Python/mactoolboxglue.o"
|        extra_undefs="-u __dummy -u _PyMac_Error"

However, the problem is that I don't know what else this might do.


I definitely don't want to disable Tcl/Tk, since that's a vital part of 
Access Grid, and I'm going to be installing the Tcl/Tk Aqua stuff once I 
finally get Python 2.3 installed.

And I have no idea what configuring with "--disable-framework" does, or 
whether Access Grid needs that.

> So far, I'm following the build instructions given at
> <http://blogs.nuxeo.com/sections/blogs/florent_guillaume/2005_05_21_compiling_python_2_3_5>, 
> and then I'm going to see if I can track down the problem alluded to at 
> <http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-python23-under-leopard-%28intel-mac%29-p15036304.html>.

As outlined at <http://bugs.python.org/issue1358>, if you configure with 
"MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5", that does seem to grab the right definition 
for "SETPGRP_HAVE_ARG", but I don't know about the other items referenced on 
 
<http://blogs.nuxeo.com/sections/blogs/florent_guillaume/2005_05_21_compiling_python_2_3_5>.


Any other advice would be appreciated.

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