Andi Vajda <va...@apache.org> wrote:

> The new Mac OS X 10.6 section of the Makefile makes use of the new --arch 
> JCC command line parameter that makes it possible to override the -arch 
> settings Python was configured with. Even though Mac OS X 10.6 is only 
> available on Intel platforms, the Mac OS X 10.6 Python shipped by Apple was 
> configured with three architectures, -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc, 
> making for compiles that are three times slower than needed and binaries 
> that are three times bigger. On Mac OS X 10.6 the PyLucene Makefile invokes 
> JCC with --arch x86_64 to build 64-bit executables only.

Andi, I can see why removing "--arch ppc" is a good idea, but Python on
OS X 10.6 is configurable to run either as 64-bit or 32-bit, which is a
pain.  See the Snow Leopard man page for "python".  So I'd guess that
the .so should be both 32-bit and 64-bit, no?

Bill

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