Python on the Mac (was Re: [Python-au] Re: Sydney Python Meeting Thursday 27 July)

[Anthony Baxter]

On Friday 28 July 2006 09:13, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thursday 27 July 2006 09:10, Garth T Kidd wrote:
> > Oh, man. Universal builds. I'm going to even more fun than usual
> > trying to build the next Juice, aren't I?
>
> Careful with Universal builds. I installed a Universal Python2.4 on
> my PPC laptop and subsequently couldn't compile any extension
> modules with distutils as it got confused and thought it was on an
> x86 platform or something :)
>
> Note that I have successfully installed universal builds of
> extensions. It's just the interpreter universal build that didn't
> work.

Please log a bug report for this - I want to make sure it's fixed 
before 2.5 final.

Anthony