[Pythonmac-SIG] Pythonmac-SIG Digest, Vol 35, Issue 51

[daniel at brightfire.com]

>From: Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov>
>To: pythonmac-sig at python.org
>Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Installing numpy 0.9.6 problems
>Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:50:33 -0800

>Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>> I'd prefer to have 1 installer for python on OSX, that makes 
>> support  a lot easier.

>And we would like to by able to use Py2App to build apps that will 
>run under both 10.3.9 and 10.4.*

>-Chris

But shouldn't we be able to build -ppc, -i386, and even -ppc64 with gcc 4.0 and then use 'lipo' to paste them to together and let the loader sort them out at run-time? Does the loader on 10.3 know enough to pick '-arch ppc' even with other in there or am I assuming too much? I'd test it myself, but my G5 1.8 Dual has died and my Quad hasn't arrived yet since I am out of town for the week ;-(.

Daniel