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

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 28-mrt-2006, at 3:10, daniel at brightfire.com wrote:

>> 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 ;-(.

Sigh, the universal python build already runs on 10.3.9 and supports  
ppc and i386. I don't have a PPC64 box so cannot even try to support  
this. Supporting this in the main build would also require more  
special casing because ppc64 processes can only use a small part of  
the OSX ABI.

Ronald

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> Daniel
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