Compiling as 32bit on MacOSX

[Gregory Ewing]

Philip Semanchuk wrote:

> Hi Greg,
> Are you talking about compiling Python itself or extensions?

I've managed to get Python itself compiled as 32 bit,
and that also seems to take care of extensions built
using 'python setup.py ...'.

I'm mainly concerned about non-Python libraries that
get wrapped by the extensions, of which I've built up
quite a collection over the years. Currently I'm having
to keep a careful eye out when building them to make
sure they don't get compiled with the wrong architecture,
since gcc's natural inclination is to default to 64 bit
whenever it's available.

So I was wondering if there was some way of globally
changing that default that doesn't rely on compiler
options getting passed correctly through the many and
varied layers of build technology that one comes across.
But from what I've seen so far, it seems not.

-- 
Greg