[Pythonmac-SIG] Using Python 2.5 on Snow Leopard

[Brad Howes]

On Sep 11, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:

> I was happy to see that Python 2.5 still shipped with SL, but now I'm
> less happy.  I can't seem to compile PIL for Python 2.5 on Snow  
> Leopard.
>
> The problem is that when I build and install libjpeg or libpng, it
> builds 64-bit libraries, but Python 2.5 is 32-bit, so the libraries
> don't work when PIL tries to use them.  You get an error message
> something like this:


Can you try recompiling with "-arch i386 -arch x86_64" options in the  
CFLAGS? I think I had gotten this to work for some other libraries  
when I ran into the dreaded linking problem. You might instead need to  
do CC="gcc -arch..." if the configure tool munges the CFLAGS too much.

     % CFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" ./configure ...

or

     % CC="gcc -arch..." ./configure ...

Brad

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