[Pythonmac-SIG] Python modules that are a PITA

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 07:10 Europe/Amsterdam, Joel Bender 
wrote:

>> Among other things I keep seeing gcc -arch i386 -arch ppc, why do I 
>> see -arch i386?
>
> Apparently Apple shipped a bad Makefile.  Look in 
> /usr/lib/python2.2/config and remove it from there.  I've been trying 
> to get 4Suite working with similar problems, lots of attempts, and no 
> solution yet.

We're using the following snippet in the setup.py for PyObjC, you could 
use something like this in PYTHONSTARTUP file when building and 
installing extension modules:

if sys.platform == 'darwin':
     # Apple has used build options that don't work with a 'normal' 
system.
     # Remove '-arch i386' from the LDFLAGS.
     import distutils.sysconfig
     distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars()
     x = distutils.sysconfig._config_vars['LDSHARED']
     y = x.replace('-arch i386', '')
     if y != x:
         print "Fixing Apple strangeness in Python configuration"
         distutils.sysconfig._config_vars['LDSHARED'] = y

Ronald