[Distutils] Mac OS 9

[Robin Becker]

In article <76B81E12-8AC0-11D7-805D-0030655234CE@cwi.nl>, Jack Jansen
<Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl> writes
>
>On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 20:46 Europe/Amsterdam, Robin Becker 
>wrote:
>
>> anyone had any success with distutils on MAc OS 9? I'm using macpython
>> 2.2.2 with code warrior 8.02 and am not getting past the mcp build
>> stage.
>
>There could be bugs in the support for CodeWarrior 8, as MacPython is 
>built with CodeWarrior 7 and the project templates that distutils uses 
>(through the mkcwproject package, look in :Mac:Lib:mwcwproject) are 
>also for CW7.
>
>What do you mean by "not getting past the build stage"? Do you get 
>errors, or do things simply stop? And when the machine locks up, can 
>you get it going again with command-.?
>
In Mac OS 9 at least once the machine locked and the python instances
was unkillable. Interestingly after the reboot we tried again and
although the build didn't continue we at least got a built .mcp which
was where the distutils build broke down.

>There is a problem with distutils when running MacPython 2.2.2 on OSX: 
>it can't find one of its include directories. Thre's an SF bug report 
>filed for this (740424).

we're just trying out OS X now. Someone tells me I can use GCC derived
tools and expertise :)
>--
>Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
>If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma 
>Goldman
>
>

-- 
Robin Becker