[issue9046] Python 2.7rc2 doesn't build on Mac OS X 10.3

Ned Deily added the comment: As far as I know, it is not supported to "upbuild" Python (or anything else) on OS X, i.e. you cannot use a higher level SDK (i.e. 10.4u) to build on an earlier system (i.e. 10.3). In particular, to build Python with a deployment target of 10.3, you need to build

[issue9046] Python 2.7rc2 doesn't build on Mac OS X 10.3

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Note that I've not checked whether an SDK build works on Mac OS X 10.6. The regular build does work. The problem appears to be related to SDK builds only, e.g. if you plan to build Universal binary on Mac OS X 10.3. -- __

[issue9046] Python 2.7rc2 doesn't build on Mac OS X 10.3

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Instrumenting find_file() a bit: if sys.platform == 'darwin': # Honor the MacOSX SDK setting when one was specified. # An SDK is a directory with the same structure as a real # system, but with only header files and libraries.

[issue9046] Python 2.7rc2 doesn't build on Mac OS X 10.3

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Turns out that find_file() always returns None for the shared mods: *** module _struct.c in ['/usr/local/src/egenix-build-environment/Python-2.7rc2-ucs2/Modules', '/usr/local/src/egenix-build-environment/Python-2.7rc2-ucs2/Mac/Modules']: find_file return

[issue9046] Python 2.7rc2 doesn't build on Mac OS X 10.3

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Some debugging shows that the ext.sources list in setup.py does not include the "Modules/" prefix for the source files: *** moddirlist=['/usr/local/src/egenix-build-environment/Python-2.7rc2-ucs2/Modules', '/usr/local/src/egenix-build-environment/Python-

[issue9046] Python 2.7rc2 doesn't build on Mac OS X 10.3

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[issue9046] Python 2.7rc2 doesn't build on Mac OS X 10.3

New submission from Marc-Andre Lemburg : The RC2 builds fine on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), but fails to build any of the required extension modules on 10.3: Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were not found: _bsddb gdbm linuxaudiod