[Pythonmac-SIG] python 2.3.4 on Mac OS X 10.3.6 is working - upgraded standard installation

[Robert Kern]

Bob Ippolito wrote:

> Once you know where this Makefile is, open it up with your favorite text 
> editor (probably using sudo).
> Navigate to approximately line 98 and replace the two configuration 
> variables LDSHARED and BLDSHARED with the following:
> 
> LDSHARED=   env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -bundle 
> -undefined dynamic_lookup
> BLDSHARED=  env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -bundle 
> -undefined dynamic_lookup

This is problematic for extensions that need to use something other than 
$(CC) to link, specifically C++ and FORTRAN extensions. distutils (and 
scipy_distutils in the FORTRAN case) splits $LDSHARED on whitespace and 
substitutes the appropriate tool into the first index. Thus you end up 
with distutils trying to run commands like

   c++ MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 gcc ... etc.

-- 
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu

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