the easy fix to get python 2.5 working again

[paul beard]

On 11/23/07, Randall Wood <rhwood at mac.com> wrote:
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> On 23 Nov 2007, at 00:29, paul beard wrote:
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> > On 11/22/07, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote: On Nov
> > 22, 2007, at 16:02, paul beard wrote:
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> > > I should have attached this to my earlier email. Since it is
> > > explicitly for darwin 8, it shouldn't break anything else. Right?
> > >
> > >  platform darwin 8 {
> > > -       configure.compiler      gcc-4.0
> > > -       configure.args-append   --with-cxx=/usr/bin/g++-4.0
> > > +       configure.compiler      gcc-3.3
> > > +       configure.args-append   --with-cxx=/usr/bin/g++- 3.3
> > >  }
> >
> > I would expect that not to work on Intel Macs, since Apple's gcc 3.3
> > only compiles PowerPC binaries.
> >
> > Well, that's all I have to work with. I have no idea if it's
> > working at all on Intel hardware. Anyone else seeing a problem with
> > it?
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> See ticket #13377[1]. I think the problem is the configure flags
> being passed to python, not the compiler.
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> [1] http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13377
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That's as may be: I saw a lot of Google results that suggested that, but I
could never get it to work.
That ticket is marked as a duplicate, and I have been down the same road as
the older one, even unto the same cited webpages. Tried the same Portfile
modifications as well.
What I did worked, though it may not be ideal for whatever reason.


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