Re: [Numpy-discussion] Questions about cross-compiling extensions for mac-ppc and mac-intel

2007-02-26 Thread Christopher Barker
Zachary Pincus wrote: building python extensions as Mac-PPC and Mac-Intel fat binaries, so I'm turning to the wisdom of this list for a few questions. I'd try the pythonmac list too -- there are folks there that actually understand all this! My general goal is to make a double-clickable

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Questions about cross-compiling extensions for mac-ppc and mac-intel

2007-02-26 Thread Robert Kern
Christopher Barker wrote: I'm no expert, but the glory of distutils is that it will, by default build extensions the same way as python itself was built. So if you use a PPC python, you'll get PPC extensions, same with Intel, and if you use a Universal Python, you'll get a Universal

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Questions about cross-compiling extensions for mac-ppc and mac-intel

2007-02-26 Thread Christopher Barker
Robert Kern wrote: even though Universal binaries built on 10.4 systems would usually work on 10.3.9, numpy doesn't. Darn, but I for one, can live without 10.3.9 support -- it does build Universal properly for 10.4 doesn't it? The R folks have a package containing gcc 4.0.3 with gfortran

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Questions about cross-compiling extensions for mac-ppc and mac-intel

2007-02-26 Thread Robert Kern
Christopher Barker wrote: Robert Kern wrote: even though Universal binaries built on 10.4 systems would usually work on 10.3.9, numpy doesn't. Darn, but I for one, can live without 10.3.9 support -- it does build Universal properly for 10.4 doesn't it? I've never tested it. -- Robert

[Numpy-discussion] Questions about cross-compiling extensions for mac-ppc and mac-intel

2007-02-24 Thread Zachary Pincus
Hi folks, I've been doing a lot of web-reading on the subject, but have not been completely able to synthesize all of the disparate bits of advice about building python extensions as Mac-PPC and Mac-Intel fat binaries, so I'm turning to the wisdom of this list for a few questions. My