On Dec 9, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Jack Jansen wrote: > > On 9-dec-2005, at 18:56, William Kyngesburye wrote: > >> I'm starting to build universal binaries for a bunch of 'nix stuff, >> some of which have python bindings/extensions. Has anyone looked at >> a universal Python framework? I'd hate to have to step backwards to >> Apple's included Python framework for that, but I may have to. > > There's a fairly recent Apple technote that discusses how to build > universal binaries for products with a configure/make build > procedure, such as Python, and I hope to look at that next week. But > Ronald already discovered that distutils has problems with building > universal extensions, so that may also turn out to be a problem > (although he wants to build something more complicated, with the PPC > binary being 10.3/10.4 compatible). > > And the "easy" way is to simply configure Python twice (Python builds > nicely in a different directory than the source, I'm doing that all > the time), once for ppc once for x86, and then using lipo to combine > everything.
That definitely has problems with extensions unless you also manage to keep separate Python trees so that you can do that from distutils.. different pyconfig.h and Makefile. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
