Python incompatibility

[Jeff Pitman]

On 11/21/05, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
>
> > If you want to provide binary extensions,
> > notice that the mx folks provide an RPM for the UCS2 build and one for
> the
> > UCS4 build.
>
> Ouch ... how are users expected to know which they have?
>

If you are creating an uber-RPM that's supposed to work on 50 different
platforms, then the burden is on you to provide two libs that are compiled
against a UCS2 and a UCS4 build of Python. Then you use a highly unmotivated
trick to determine which Python was configured with during the
installation/configure stage (post package install).

--
-jeff
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