[Pythonmac-SIG] Problems building 2.3.5 source on MacOS X Tiger

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Mon Jul 25 02:46:51 CEST 2005


On Jul 24, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Bill Northcott wrote:

> On 24/07/2005, at 4:20 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>>
>> I fixed this problem for 2.4.1 (CVS HEAD should be fine too).  I  
>> don't really consider 2.3 important enough to spend my time  
>> backporting.  If you notice, Apple didn't compile Python 2.3 under  
>> gcc 4 either.
>>
>
> I got a chance to look at the 'fix' and it is still does not seem  
> right to me.

The fix was simply to get it to compile, and was done way before the  
x86 transition.  Changing the build process is a PITA and you have to  
be careful not to cause issues with other platforms and previous  
versions of OS X.

Patches accepted!

-bob



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