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diff --git a/Mac/BuildScript/README.txt b/Mac/BuildScript/README.txt index 0f1aeb5..c4f0b67 100644 --- a/Mac/BuildScript/README.txt +++ b/Mac/BuildScript/README.txt @@ -1,78 +1,147 @@ -Building a MacPython distribution -================================= +Building a Python Mac OS X distribution +======================================= -The ``build-install.py`` script creates MacPython distributions, including -sleepycat db4, sqlite3 and readline support. It builds a complete +The ``build-install.py`` script creates Python distributions, including +certain third-party libraries as necessary. It builds a complete framework-based Python out-of-tree, installs it in a funny place with $DESTROOT, massages that installation to remove .pyc files and such, creates an Installer package from the installation plus other files in ``resources`` and ``scripts`` and placed that on a ``.dmg`` disk image. -Prerequisites -------------- +As of Python 2.7.x and 3.2, PSF practice is to build two installer variants +for each release: -* A MacOS X 10.4 (or later) +1. 32-bit-only, i386 and PPC universal, capable on running on all machines + supported by Mac OS X 10.3.9 through (at least) 10.6:: -* XCode 2.2 (or later), with the universal SDK + python2.6 build-installer.py \ + --sdk-path=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk \ + --universal-archs=32-bit \ + --dep-target=10.3 + # These are the current default options -* No Fink (in ``/sw``) or DarwinPorts (in ``/opt/local``), those could + - builds the following third-party libraries + + * Bzip2 + * Zlib 1.2.3 + * GNU Readline (GPL) + * SQLite 3 + * NCurses + * Oracle Sleepycat DB 4.8 (Python 2.x only) + + - requires ActiveState ``Tcl/Tk 8.4`` (currently 8.4.19) to be installed for building + + - current target build environment: + + * Mac OS X 10.5.8 PPC or Intel + * Xcode 3.1.4 (or later) + * ``MacOSX10.4u`` SDK (later SDKs do not support PPC G3 processors) + * ``MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3`` + * Apple ``gcc-4.0`` + * Python 2.6 for documentation build with Sphinx + + - alternate build environments: + + * Mac OS X 10.4.11 with Xcode 2.5 + * Mac OS X 10.6.6 with Xcode 3.2.5 + - need to change ``/System/Library/Frameworks/{Tcl,Tk}.framework/Version/Current`` to ``8.4`` + +2. 64-bit / 32-bit, x86_64 and i386 universal, for OS X 10.6 (and later):: + + python2.6 build-installer.py \ + --sdk-path=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk \ + --universal-archs=intel \ + --dep-target=10.6 + + - uses system-supplied versions of third-party libraries + + * readline module links with Apple BSD editline (libedit) + * builds Oracle Sleepycat DB 4.8 (Python 2.x only) + + - requires ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5.9 (or later) to be installed for building + + - current target build environment: + + * Mac OS X 10.6.6 (or later) + * Xcode 3.2.5 (or later) + * ``MacOSX10.6`` SDK + * ``MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6`` + * Apple ``gcc-4.2`` + * Python 2.6 for documentation build with Sphinx + + - alternate build environments: + + * none + + +General Prerequisites +--------------------- + +* No Fink (in ``/sw``) or MacPorts (in ``/opt/local``) or other local + libraries or utilities (in ``/usr/local``) as they could interfere with the build. -* The documentation for the release must be available on python.org +* The documentation for the release is built using Sphinx because it is included in the installer. +* It is safest to start each variant build with an empty source directory + populated with a fresh copy of the untarred source. + The Recipe ---------- -Here are the steps you need to follow to build a MacPython installer: +Here are the steps you need to follow to build a Python installer: -* Run ``./build-installer.py``. Optionally you can pass a number of arguments - to specify locations of various files. Please see the top of +* Run ``build-installer.py``. Optionally you can pass a number of arguments + to specify locations of various files. Please see the top of ``build-installer.py`` for its usage. - Running this script takes some time, I will not only build Python itself + Running this script takes some time, it will not only build Python itself but also some 3th-party libraries that are needed for extensions. * When done the script will tell you where the DMG image is (by default somewhere in ``/tmp/_py``). -Building a 4-way universal installer -.................................... +Building other universal installers +................................... It is also possible to build a 4-way universal installer that runs on -OSX Leopard or later:: +OS X Leopard or later:: - $ ./build-installer.py --dep-target=10.5 --universal-archs=all --sdk=/ + python 2.6 /build-installer.py \ + --dep-target=10.5 + --universal-archs=all + --sdk-path=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk -This requires that the deployment target is 10.5 (or later), and hence -also that your building on at least OSX 10.5. - -Testing -------- - -The resulting binaries should work on MacOSX 10.3.9 or later. I usually run -the installer on a 10.3.9, a 10.4.x PPC and a 10.4.x Intel system and then -run the testsuite to make sure. +This requires that the deployment target is 10.5, and hence +also that you are building on at least OS X 10.5. 4-way includes +``i386``, ``x86_64``, ``ppc``, and ``ppc64`` (G5). ``ppc64`` executable +variants can only be run on G5 machines running 10.5. Note that, +while OS X 10.6 is only supported on Intel-based machines, it is possible +to run ``ppc`` (32-bit) executables unmodified thanks to the Rosetta ppc +emulation in OS X 10.5 and 10.6. +Other ``--universal-archs`` options are ``64-bit`` (``x86_64``, ``ppc64``), +and ``3-way`` (``ppc``, ``i386``, ``x86_64``). None of these options +are regularly exercised; use at your own risk. -Announcements -------------- -(This is mostly of historic interest) +Testing +------- -When all is done, announcements can be posted to at least the following -places: -- pythonmac-sig@python.org -- python-dev@python.org -- python-announce@python.org -- archivist@info-mac.org -- adcnews@apple.com -- news@macnn.com -- http://www.macupdate.com -- http://guide.apple.com/usindex.lasso -- http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/submit -- http://www.versiontracker.com/ (userid Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com) -- http://www.macshareware.net (userid jackjansen) +Ideally, the resulting binaries should be installed and the test suite run +on all supported OS X releases and architectures. As a practical matter, +that is generally not possible. At a minimum, variant 1 should be run on +at least one Intel, one PPC G4, and one PPC G3 system and one each of +OS X 10.6, 10.5, 10.4, and 10.3.9. Not all tests run on 10.3.9. +Variant 2 should be run on 10.6 in both 32-bit and 64-bit modes.:: + + arch -i386 /usr/local/bin/pythonn.n -m test.regrtest -w -u all + arch -X86_64 /usr/local/bin/pythonn.n -m test.regrtest -w -u all + +Certain tests will be skipped and some cause the interpreter to fail +which will likely generate ``Python quit unexpectedly`` alert messages +to be generated at several points during a test run. These can +be ignored. -Also, check out Stephan Deibels http://pythonology.org/market contact list |