Hi fellow python enthusiasts. Having recently acquired a MacBook Pro (Intel Core 2 Duo) which comes with python2.5, I have been installing some modules that I need (PIL, psycopg2, PyXML ...).
The problem is that [$python setup.py build] compiles all the binaries to universal files for i386 and ppc32, but not x86_64 or ppc64. It does not appear to be a problem when running scripts from the shell (as python seems to run as a 32 bits problems), but it is a problem from apache2/mod_python as the included apache2 runs as 64 bits processes. This means the modules need to be compiles for at least both i386 and x86_64 in my case. I have been looking at the setup.py files of various modules but I cannot see a suitable way to indicate what architectures I want them compiled for. So far, I have managed by adding the following lines in setup.py just after the Extension class is imported: OrigExtension = Extension def Extension(*args, **kwargs): extra_args = ['-arch', 'ppc', '-arch', 'ppc64', '-arch', 'i386', '-arch', 'x86_64 '] kwargs['extra_compile_args'] = extra_args + kwargs.get('extra_compile_args', []) kwargs['extra_link_args'] = extra_args + kwargs.get('extra_link_args', []) return OrigExtension(*args, **kwargs) Obviously this is a dirty hack, and I would like to know how to do this the right way. How can this be done better? -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list