[Python-Dev] Python 2.7 Mac universal builds seem broken on trunk

[Barry Scott]

On 27 Sep 2009, at 03:12, Ned Deily wrote:

> In article <90A90A3C-E037-4FCA-95D2-A46A5C6DD60A at barrys-emacs.org>,
> Barry Scott <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
>> I'm working with http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk on Mac  
>> OS
>> X 10.6.1
>> using Apples xcode gcc 4.2.1.
>>
>> When I run the following commands:
>>
>> 	./configure --enable-framework --with-universal-archs=32-bit | tee
>> build.config.log
>> 	make clean all | tee build.make.log
>>
>> I end up with a x86_64 Python image.
>>
>> No matter what I use for archs its always the same.
>>
>> I would expect to see -arch arg to GCC but it is not there.
>>
>> 	export CFLAG="-arch i386"

I should have used CFLAGS...

>>
>> did not work either.
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong or is this broken on trunk?
>
> You need to add the enable-universalsdk parameter to configure:
>
>  ... --enable-universalsdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk

Thanks that worked with the 10.5 sdk.

>
> Be aware, though, that universal build support on 10.6 is a bit of a
> work in progress as there are still some interesting unexplained
> universal build issues when building on Snow Leopard (see, for  
> instance,
> the comments in http://bugs.python.org/issue6957).  At the moment, the
> focus is on getting 2.6.3 out the door and the standard installer for
> that will be built on 10.5.

O.k.

Barry