On 2009-10-21 14:59 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

On 19 Oct, 2009, at 23:20, Robert Kern wrote:

Edit /Library/Frameworks/.../lib/python2.5/config/Makefile to remove
the occurrences of "-arch ppc" if you never want to build PPC versions
of stuff again. More recent versions of EPD should have that done
already.

Patching the installation is evil.

I would agree that patching the *code* is evil, but the Makefile is really just a datastore for the default configuration information for distutils. If you know what you're doing, I say feel free. distutils doesn't give us another way to change this default configuration.

--
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco

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