[lxml-dev] lxml Mac installation idea

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Tue Nov 11 21:47:02 CET 2008


Hi,

Guntsche Michael wrote:
> What I ment was. If you build lxml yourself get universal builds of  
> libiconv, libxml2 and libxslt from macports or compile them yourself.

Ok, two obvious questions:

1) how can setup.py figure out if it's running in a universally built Python?

2) how do you configure the build of libxml2/libxslt/libiconv to be universal?
Mark wrote that "-arch i386 -arch ppc" will do the trick. Is that the right
way of doing it?

Stefan



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