[Pythonmac-SIG] Any way to use gcc 3.3 with universal build (on PPC)

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jul 24, 2006, at 3:55 PM, Andrew Jaffe wrote:

> I've recently upgraded to the Universal Build, since 2.4.3 seems to be
> needed for the most recent version of numpy.
>
> Further, the universal build is made with gcc 4.0.1, and seems to need
> that for compiling extensions.
>
> This does present a few problems: numpy actually has a fairly obscure
> bug on OSX with gcc 4. More importantly, g77 and gcc 4.0 don't seem to
> play that well together (and neither gfortran nor g95 seem to be quite
> there yet, for various reasons).
>
> So, is there any way to use gcc 3.3 with the universal build? It seems
> like it should be possible, since modules actually built with 3.3  
> under
> python2.4.1 work fine.

gcc 3.3 can only build PPC. You'd have to try pretty hard to get it  
to use GCC 3.3, and you'd end up with a .so that is PPC only.

-bob