Harold, Thanks for the information. It sounds like I might be more lucky to try 2.5 on Leopard (I don't know what will happen for Carbon, because regardless of 64bits, it is being deprecated anyway).
I will also send information when I get to try it. Thanks! alex On 2/22/07 3:45 AM, "Harold Walter Schranz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Alex > > Sorry for the delay in replying. I'll send a summary below based on > our preliminary work achieved to date. > > On 21/02/2007, at 7:22 AM, Alexandre Parenteau wrote: >> Any progress in this issue? I'm asked to investigate the same >> thing. I would >> greatly appreciate hints on the configure options. > > It is still early days (as information is relatively scarce and of > variable reliability) and we have other multiple threads to our > research project. This part of the project has been put on idle (not > quite on the backburner, mixing metaphors). So progress so far is > evident from the newsgroup threads: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2007-February/ > thread.html#18657 > > Particularly: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2007- > February/018657.html > > In summary: >> 6. However at the end of the process it appeared I had a 64-bit >> executable of Python >> >> 1714:harry at jcs156218:~/Desktop/TODO/Python-2.5:599$ file python.exe >> >> python.exe: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64 >> >> 1714:harry at jcs156218:~/Desktop/TODO/Python-2.5:599$ python.exe >> >> Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Feb 2 2007, 17:12:53) >> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>>> 1+2 >> 3 >> >> So it looks like it is possible to produce a Mach-O 64-bit executable >> x86_64 >> but whether it is working is another matter >> >> 7. Running the tests: make tests yields: in summary: >> >> 266 tests OK. >> 2 tests failed: >> 51 tests skipped: >> ... >> 17 skips unexpected on darwin: >> ... >> make: *** [test] Error 1 >> >> I may try to repeat this process (with less flags?). >> At least this run is a lead that a 64-bit build of Python is possible. > > > Some detailed information and comments at: > http://lists.apple.com/archives/unix-porting/2007/Feb/index.html > http://lists.apple.com/archives/scitech/2007/Feb/msg00000.html > > I expect to make more progress when I have time to devote to the > build. Just a few little details to tie up. > > Let me know if you make any further progress. We too have to deal > with Numpy and other packages (MySQL) with 64-bit issues. > > Good Luck, > Harry. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---- > Dr. Harold W. Schranz, Research Fellow, Computational Genomics Group > Division of Molecular Bioscience, John Curtin School of Medical Research > Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---- > > _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig