Ned wrote: > The easy way to avoid nearly all the hassle, at the moment, is to stick > with 32-bit and build Python on 10.5 - not a good long term solution.
I hesitate to bring this up for 2.6.5 because I know you guys are swamped, but... Can you clarify how those of us on Snow Leopard can build a 32-bit 2.6.4 or 2.6.5? If we *deploy* for 10.4 or 10.5 while building on Snow Leopard, can we get a 32-bit intel executable via a universal ppc/i386 build? (Background for those who may not have followed this: A universal intel build currently does build a bundle with 32- and 64-bit executables, but there is no way to access the 32-bit version, and no way to build just 32-bit intel on Snow Leopard. I think the fix is planned for 2.7 but not yet in 2.7a3 and not backported to 2.6.5rc1.) To explain my continued pestering on this: I've written several Homebrew formulae to make installing Python and the libs for NumPy/SciPy pretty painless on the Mac. Homebrew builds everything from source, and its policy is to try as much as possible to target the user's platform; it is being maintained for Snow Leopard (though many formulae build on Leopard). Pretty much everything in Homebrew is intel-only (since Snow Leopard is), hence its current Python formula has only 64-bit intel (default) and universal intel options. Obviously we can put in ppc/intel universal options to get 32-bit (as a stopgap), but I'm now getting dizzy with the number of Python version/config flag permutations I've tried, trying to build an accessible 32-bit Python on Snow Leopard (so far without success on 2.6.4, 2.6.5rc1, and 2.7a3), and I'd prefer to have some guidance on what to do for my next iterations. 8-) Or does one really have to build under Leopard to get 32-bit? Thanks, Tom ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
