2.6.4 Mac x86_64 ?

[chris grebeldinger]

On Nov 14, 12:53 am, Zvezdan Petkovic <zvez... at zope.com> wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2009, at 3:58 PM, chris grebeldinger wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> > I've been having some trouble getting ax86_64/i386 universal
> > readline.so to build against libedit, on MacOS 10.5.6 as Apple does.
> > Does anyone have any pointers about what changes I need to make to
> > setup.py or readline.c to achive this?
> > Has someone already done this and would like to share it?
>
> The fix for use of native editline (readline emulation) was done and is already implemented on the trunk (2.7).
> Please see:http://bugs.python.org/issue6877
> You can find the patch in that tracker issue or here:http://svn.python.org/view?view=rev&revision=74970
>
> It was marked for a backport to a future 2.6.5 release too.
>
> > Are there any plans to provide 64 bit support in future Mac OS 2.6.x
> > releases?
>
> AFAIK, it is already supported.
> Perhaps you should specify the exact problems you have.
> I believe that a more appropriate place for that would be pythonmac-sig mailing list, though.
>
> Best regards,
>
>         Zvezdan

Thank-you, doing a manual backport was easy once I knew where to find
the diff =)

- Chris