Ronald Oussoren wrote:
On 9 Jun, 2008, at 13:19, Charlie Moad wrote:
Ok, so let's probe the distutils list and ask them to add support for
fat binaries. You would think they could inspect the CFLAGS or
library output with the "file" command to see if the build is
outputting fat binaries.
Why not investigate yourself? Distutils already supports fat binaries
when building using a python.org build. The python build that Apple
ships did have some issues and those should be easy to fix, and to be
honest I can't recall if they are already fixed.
Automaticly detecting which architectures are present in a binary would
be harder, distutils determines the platform architecture before
building the extensions and not afterwards.
I don't think the issue here is building -- I think the eggs that are
built do work -- the issue here is easy_install knowing what to look
for, and being able to find that, in the case of a Universal build.
It seems when you run "easy_install matplotlib", fro man intel machine
-- it goes and looks for a i386 binary, and when you run it from a PPC,
it looks for a ppc binary -- and in neither case does it find the
Universal one. So we need to either:
1) Know it is a Universal build of Python, and thus look for, and finid,
a Universal binary.
2) Or accept a Universal binary when it is looking for either an Intle
of PPC version.
I like the first option better, but have no idea how all this works.
-Chris
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