It's much better to build PPC only if you can't test i386. If you create a broken universal or i386 build, then your software doesn't work on i386 machines. If you create a PPC-only build, it runs on i386 machines.. just not optimally. Much better than broken.
-bob On Dec 9, 2005, at 1:09 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote: > What with one thing or another, that's how I've had to build > everything so far - build once for each and merge them. Tho with my > limited skills, I've taken a more rough approach - build ppc, > duplicate and clean, add in i386 options manually to makefiles, > build, merge using the same link commands as the package uses. I > didn't know about lipo, that looks like it would simplify the merging. > > I think I can wait for a universal build of python, and just build > the python bits ppc-only for now. Not many (if any) will be able to > test the i386 side yet. > > > On Dec 9, 2005, at 2:36 PM, Jack Jansen wrote: > >> 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. >> > > ----- > William Kyngesburye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.kyngchaos.com/ > > Theory of the Universe > > There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly > what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly > disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely > inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has > already happened. > > -Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 2nd season intro > > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
