I'm trying to build PyObjC on an Intel Mac running OS X 10.5.7. The build is breaking because distutils seems to want to build extension modules as universal binaries, but some of the libraries it depends on are built for intel-only, i.e.:
[...@mickey:~/Desktop/pyobjc-framework-ScreenSaver-2.2b2]$ python2.6 setup.py build /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/distutils /dist.py:266: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'options' warnings.warn(msg) running build running build_py running build_ext building 'ScreenSaver._inlines' extension gcc -arch ppc -arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -g -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.6/Modules/_ScreenSaver_inlines.o -o build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.6/ScreenSaver/_inlines.so -framework ScreenSaver ld: in /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/local/lib/libTIFF.dylib, file is not of required architecture for architecture ppc collect2: ld returned 1 exit status lipo: can't open input file: /var/folders/nT/nTiypn-v2RatkU+BYncrKU+++TI/-Tmp-//ccMFYRkt.out (No such file or directory) error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 [...@mickey:~/Desktop/pyobjc-framework-ScreenSaver-2.2b2]$ file build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.6/Modules/_ScreenSaver_inlines.o build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.6/Modules/_ScreenSaver_inlines.o: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.6/Modules/_ScreenSaver_inlines.o (for architecture ppc): Mach-O object ppc build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.6/Modules/_ScreenSaver_inlines.o (for architecture i386): Mach-O object i386 [...@mickey:~/Desktop/pyobjc-framework-ScreenSaver-2.2b2]$ file /usr/local/lib/libtiff.dylib /usr/local/lib/libtiff.dylib: Mach-O dynamically linked shared library i386 How do I get distutils to stop trying to build extensions as universal binaries? Thanks, rg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list