bunnyhero dev » Python http://www.bunnyhero.org Notes on iPhone, Flash and Web development Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:00:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How universal is “universal”? http://www.bunnyhero.org/2010/01/01/how-universal-is-universal/ http://www.bunnyhero.org/2010/01/01/how-universal-is-universal/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:48:49 +0000 bunnyhero http://www.bunnyhero.org/?p=275 Tip: if building a +universal variant in MacPorts (for example, because you’re trying to build and install the Python Imaging Library), then you should check /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf to see what MacPorts considers “Universal”:

universal_archs

The machine architectures to use for +universal variant (multiple entries must be space delimited). Options include: ppc, i386, ppc64, x86_64

Default: x86_64 i386 (ppc i386 for 10.5 and earlier)

(from http://guide.macports.org/#internals.configuration-files)

On Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), the default value for universal_archs is x86_64 i386. Note that it does not include the PowerPC architecture. This makes perfect sense, because Snow Leopard doesn’t run on PowerPCs. Unfortunately, when installing PIL with pip, it builds for PPC as well, and thus requires PPC architectures in its dependent libraries, even on 10.6. I do not know how to disable PPC support in PIL (or pip?). All of this Python extension building stuff is new to me :)

The upshot: if you are running 10.6, then you must edit macports.conf and add “ppc” to universal_archs before you follow the directions in the linked article.

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