[Pythonmac-SIG] Unwanted PPC build in setuptools

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 21 Oct, 2009, at 22:48, Robert Kern wrote:

> On 2009-10-21 14:59 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>>
>> On 19 Oct, 2009, at 23:20, Robert Kern wrote:
>
>>> Edit /Library/Frameworks/.../lib/python2.5/config/Makefile to remove
>>> the occurrences of "-arch ppc" if you never want to build PPC  
>>> versions
>>> of stuff again. More recent versions of EPD should have that done
>>> already.
>>
>> Patching the installation is evil.
>
> I would agree that patching the *code* is evil, but the Makefile is  
> really just a datastore for the default configuration information  
> for distutils. If you know what you're doing, I say feel free.  
> distutils doesn't give us another way to change this default  
> configuration.

Could you file a bug for this at bugs.python.org?  Any need to edit  
files in sys.prefix is IMHO a bug, it should be possible to configure  
this in a setup.cfg file or ~/.pydistutils.cfg.

Ronald

>
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> Robert Kern
>
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> harmless enigma
> that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as  
> though it had
> an underlying truth."
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