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| author | Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com> | 2008-12-28 19:40:56 (GMT) |
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| committer | Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com> | 2008-12-28 19:40:56 (GMT) |
| commit | 4b48c612bbc2422ad89aea3db6e7fa286b6fd2d5 (patch) | |
| tree | b63bc3d43f9cdb14e204e4ed20e08bceabf2a3c5 /Doc/distutils | |
| parent | dae1a6a4889a67d29c7e1638472625cc4ca3cdf3 (diff) | |
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Issue4064: architecture string for universal builds on OSX
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/distutils/apiref.rst | 17 |
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diff --git a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst index a8f7461..a932fbd 100644 --- a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst +++ b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst @@ -1100,6 +1100,23 @@ other utility module. For non-POSIX platforms, currently just returns ``sys.platform``. + For MacOS X systems the OS version reflects the minimal version on which + binaries will run (that is, the value of ``MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET`` + during the build of Python), not the OS version of the current system. + + For universal binary builds on MacOS X the architecture value reflects + the univeral binary status instead of the architecture of the current + processor. For 32-bit universal binaries the architecture is ``fat``, + for 4-way universal binaries the architecture is ``universal``. + + Examples of returned values on MacOS X: + + * ``macosx-10.3-ppc`` + + * ``macosx-10.3-fat`` + + * ``macosx-10.5-universal`` + .. % XXX isn't this also provided by some other non-distutils module? |