[Pythonmac-SIG] SciPy install on Tiger with Python 2.4.1 framework

[Bill Northcott]

On 12/08/2005, at 4:26 AM, Samuel M.Smith wrote:
> And now setup.py build still exits with an error in the same place  
> but the error is different
>
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
> _fprintf$LDBLStub
> _sprintf$LDBLStub
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

See my email of 24 July.  There is a basic problem with the Python  
build system because it uses the system libtool to build libraries.   
This is fragile.

The 'right way' to build libraries is to use the gcc compiler driver  
because this automatically ensures that the appropriate system  
libraries get linked.  The compiler driver can also do stuff like  
multiple invocations of libtool, ld and lipo to build fat multi- 
architecture binaries.

Bob said he accepted the patch, but I can't see it in the CVS.

Bill