[C++-sig] boost.python on OS X 10.3 (Panther)

[Bob Ippolito]

On Nov 2, 2003, at 9:23 PM, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote:

> --- Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
>> -F will alter the search path for frameworks, just like -L for 
>> libraries
>> The normal search path is something like:
>> 	~/Library/Frameworks
>> 	/Library/Frameworks
>> 	/Network/Library/Frameworks
>> 	/System/Library/Frameworks
>>
>> On Panther, you want it to find Python.framework in
>> /System/Library/Frameworks, so don't install another Python anywhere
>> else if you're on Panther.
>
> Oh, if it's that then maybe this is useful:
>
> I noticed that the Python installation involves commands like:
>
> gcc -Wl,-F. -bundle -framework Python
> build/temp.darwin-6.8-Power_Macintosh-2.3/_TEmodule.o -L/usr/local/lib 
> -o
> build/lib.darwin-6.8-Power_Macintosh-2.3/_TE.so -framework Carbon
>
> Note the "-Wl,-F"

-Wl,-F. means "tell the linker to look for frameworks in the current 
directory first" .. that's because the Python.framework isn't installed 
yet, so it's not on the normal search path.

By the way, the 2.2 version is neither framework nor dylib.  The Python 
symbols are in the interpreter executable, so it's pretty worthless, 
especially considering that 2.2.0 had a broken bundle loader on OS X 
(can only load one somemodule.so.. i.e. if site-packages/somemodule.so 
loads first, then site-packages/somepackage/somemodule.so will not 
raise an exception but will be just a copy of 
site-packages/somemodule.so .. or vice versa, depends on which comes 
first), among other bugs.

-bob