On 28-mrt-2006, at 3:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> From: Christopher Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: pythonmac-sig@python.org >> Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Installing numpy 0.9.6 problems >> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:50:33 -0800 > >> Ronald Oussoren wrote: > >>> I'd prefer to have 1 installer for python on OSX, that makes >>> support a lot easier. > >> And we would like to by able to use Py2App to build apps that will >> run under both 10.3.9 and 10.4.* > >> -Chris > > But shouldn't we be able to build -ppc, -i386, and even -ppc64 with > gcc 4.0 and then use 'lipo' to paste them to together and let the > loader sort them out at run-time? Does the loader on 10.3 know > enough to pick '-arch ppc' even with other in there or am I > assuming too much? I'd test it myself, but my G5 1.8 Dual has died > and my Quad hasn't arrived yet since I am out of town for the > week ;-(.
Sigh, the universal python build already runs on 10.3.9 and supports ppc and i386. I don't have a PPC64 box so cannot even try to support this. Supporting this in the main build would also require more special casing because ppc64 processes can only use a small part of the OSX ABI. Ronald > > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
