Ronald Oussoren wrote: > >>> Use: >>> >>> ./configure --enable-framework --enable-universalsdk=/ >>> >>> The --with-universal-archs flag selects whichs architectures should be >>> included when you build a universal binary, defaulting to 32-bit. >> >> The Python default on 10.6 is 64-bit, so wouldn't it be better >> to default to that on 10.6 and use 32-bit as default on 10.3/4/5 ?! > > Defaulting to a 32-bit build has several advantages. The first is that > the defaults match the binary installer on the python.org website,
What build options does that installer use ? (the web-page doesn't say) > and > secondly there are still 3th-party libraries that don't work in 64-bit > mode (mostly GUI libraries, until recently Tk and wxWidgets wrapped the > Carbon libraries which are not available in 64-bit mode; AFAIK both have > betas that wrap the Cocoa libraries instead). > > To mimick the system default you'd have to default to 32-bit on 10.4, > 4-way universal on 10.5 and 3-way universal on 10.6, and that is without > considering deployment targets. All of those are available as options, > I'd prefer to keep it this way for now to keep things simple. Hmm, so I guess the only way to support them all is by building extensions using 4-way universal on 10.5. No wonder they are called "fat" binaries ;-) >>> I'll write some documentation on the build options on OSX, but don't >>> know what's the best location to do so. >> >> Please put that information into Mac/README which already has >> documentation for how to build universal binaries on Mac. > > I know that, I wrote most of that file ;-). Which is why I was surprised you asked :-) >>> I guess I should also add logic to configure that bails out when you >>> specifiy --with-universal-archs without asking for a universal build. >> >> That would be useful. > > I've committed a patch to the trunk and 2.6 that does this. Thanks. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Sep 29 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com