[Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: distutils and stdarg.h

[Russell E. Owen]

In article 
<CALGmxE+EsRe4VbpQzXcapR_WiGAT8NT75_KGHHxCOACy8RMGng at mail.gmail.com>,
 Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> darn, forgot to send to the list again -- I hate these defaults!
> 
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>
> Date: Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] distutils and stdarg.h
> To: Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com>
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> 
> wrote:
> >> against the python.org 32 bit Intel/PPC build of python 2.7
> >>
> >> I'm getting a bunch of errors like:
> >>
> >> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/include/stdarg.h:4:25: error:
> >> stdarg.h: No such file or directory
> >>
> >> That file does exist, but it uses:
> >>
> >> #include_next <stdarg.h>
> 
> > What compiler version do you use?
> 
> It's using g++ 4.2.1

I suggest you try one of these things:
- Use gcc 4.0.1 to build extensions for 32-bit python.org python. That's 
what I'm still doing. It requires XCode 3.x.

- Use gcc 4.2.1 to build extensions for 64-bit python.org python. Two 
issues:
   - you give up compatibility with MacOS X 10.5.
   - The result will not work with ActiveState's Tcl/Tk. Not a problem 
for you, but both of these are unacceptable for my code.

- Use gcc 4.2.1 and ActiveState's 64-bit python 2.7. That supposedly 
gives you compatibility with MacOS X 10.5 and it surely works with 
ActiveState's Tcl/Tk. But you may need a license to distribute the 
results (likely free in your case). This is the way I'm leaning, and I 
even got a license, but I'm reluctant to give up on python.or python.

-- Russell