On 29 Sep, 2009, at 17:28, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:


Ronald Oussoren wrote:

On 26 Sep, 2009, at 14:46, Barry Scott wrote:

I'm working with http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk on Mac OS
X 10.6.1
using Apples xcode gcc 4.2.1.

When I run the following commands:

./configure --enable-framework --with-universal-archs=32-bit | tee
build.config.log
   make clean all | tee build.make.log

I end up with a x86_64 Python image.

No matter what I use for archs its always the same.

I would expect to see -arch arg to GCC but it is not there.

   export CFLAG="-arch i386"

did not work either.

Am I doing something wrong or is this broken on trunk?

Use:

   ./configure --enable-framework --enable-universalsdk=/

The --with-universal-archs flag selects whichs architectures should be
included when you build a universal binary, defaulting to 32-bit.

The Python default on 10.6 is 64-bit, so wouldn't it be better
to default to that on 10.6 and use 32-bit as default on 10.3/4/5 ?!

Defaulting to a 32-bit build has several advantages. The first is that the defaults match the binary installer on the python.org website, and secondly there are still 3th-party libraries that don't work in 64-bit mode (mostly GUI libraries, until recently Tk and wxWidgets wrapped the Carbon libraries which are not available in 64-bit mode; AFAIK both have betas that wrap the Cocoa libraries instead).

To mimick the system default you'd have to default to 32-bit on 10.4, 4-way universal on 10.5 and 3-way universal on 10.6, and that is without considering deployment targets. All of those are available as options, I'd prefer to keep it this way for now to keep things simple.


I'll write some documentation on the build options on OSX,  but don't
know what's the best location to do so.

Please put that information into Mac/README which already has
documentation for how to build universal binaries on Mac.

I know that, I wrote most of that file ;-).

I guess I should also add logic to configure that bails out when you
specifiy --with-universal-archs without asking for a universal build.

That would be useful.

I've committed a patch to the trunk and 2.6 that does this.

Ronald

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