[PyQt] Can't build sip as universal binary on Leopard

[Phil Thompson]

On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Kevin Walzer wrote:
> Kevin Walzer wrote:
> > This message on Apple's mailing list sheds some insight:
> >
> > http://lists.apple.com/archives/Xcode-users/2007/Oct/msg00696.html
> >
> > Essentially, the '-mmacosx-version-min=10.4' flag needs to be passed in
> > somewhere. This is necessary because the current OS is now 10.5.
> >
> > I'm not sure how to patch the toplevel configure.py to obtain the
> > correct argument parsing, however. Running the  script with the
> > invocation
> >
> > python configure.py CFLAGS+='-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk
> > -mmacosx-version-min=10.4'
> >
> > builds a single-platform (i386) binary, not a universal binary.
> >
> > Any hints?
>
> I've gotten things working, in a somewhat tedious way:
>
> 1. For sip, I ran "python configure.py -n" to generate a universal
> binary makefile, then manually edited the makefile and added
> "-mmacosx-version-min=10.4'" to CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and LFLAGS.
>
> 2. For PyQt, I ran "python configure.py" and then manually edited every
> makefile in the directory tree to add "-mmacosx-version-min=10.4'" to
> CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and LFLAGS.
>
> Things appear to have built as a universal binary. Still, if someone
> could suggest how to patch the main configure.py files to avoid all this
> manual hacking, that would be much appreciated. :-)

Doing as you did at first, ie. passing CFLAGS+='-mmacosx-version-min=10.4' and 
the same for CXXFLAGS and LFLAGS to SIP's configure.py should work.

Phil