[Pythonmac-SIG] building extensions on OSX

[Gordon Worley]

At 1:29 PM +0100 12/31/2000, Jack Jansen wrote:
>I haven't played with OSX a lot yet, but I have heard the rumour that
>it is extremely picky about multiple definitions (on most systems,
>include MacOS9 and most Unixes Im familiar with, this would be a
>warning at most, and Python and mysql would happily use their local
>copy of Pickler_setattr).

In some ways, I wish that it were a rumor (it just means I have to be 
careful with the include statements).  At the moment I'm taking an 
Advanced Placement Computer Science A (this is the first year it was 
offered, but fortunately most colleges that I've seen won't give 
credit for AB anyway) and have to write command line programs in C++ 
(I don't like C++ that much, but it is okay, except for when they 
want us to do string manipulation and I get frustrated with the fact 
that my 10 lines of C++ could be 2 in Python).  Anyway, some of the 
labs that we have to do (where we get some code and have to extend it 
in a specific way to learn about features of C++), sometimes programs 
refuse to compile because a header file was included twice (first 
included in file x, then file x included in file y, but file y also 
includes the header file, thus resulting in duplicate name errors). 
When I am under SuSE Linux, this never happens.  So, it's not just 
rumor, OS X is picky in this area.
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