[issue7102] Problems building pyhton from source on Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6)

[Fredrik Hedman]

Fredrik Hedman <fredrik.hedman at me.com> added the comment:

Hi Ronald,

I checked out release31-maint from the python svn.  It compiles fine and passes all the tests.

So if I understand you correctly, these corrections need to be moved into 3.1.1 and that is also
tru for the 32/64-bit compilation issues. 

Cheers,
/Fredrik Hedman

On Sunday, October 11, 2009, at 01:36PM, "Ronald Oussoren" <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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>Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> added the comment:
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>Fredrik: OSX 10.6 was released after Python 3.1.1. I know that we had to 
>apply a number of patches to the 2.6 branch to get that to compile 
>properly on 10.6, and those should have been forward ported to the 3.1 
>branch.
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>Could you please do a checkout of the 3.1 branch and test if that solves 
>the issue for you (it does for me)?
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>One issue you are running into is that the compiler on 10.6 generates 
>64-bit code by default, while Python's build system assumes that the 
>compiler generates 32-bit code. This was fixed in python 2.6.3 and the 
>3.x branches a while back, but hasn't made it into a release of 3.1 yet.
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