Am 12.06.2010, 19:56 Uhr, schrieb Jens Vagelpohl <jens@dataflake.org>:
I had grabbed this particular invocation somewhere on the web, its main aim is to ensure that the x86-64 architecture is always forced and not some package default that may or may not be correct.
I'd second this. Apple seriously screwed up Python in Snow Leopard - it included private hacks and required reverse engineering by the Python developers for their own release. Quite a few changes in Snow Leopard cause problems when compiling. I would suggest using either MacPorts (my preference) or the Python.org version rather worrying about which compiler flags have to be set. Charlie -- Charlie Clark Managing Director Clark Consulting & Research German Office Helmholtzstr. 20 Düsseldorf D- 40215 Tel: +49-211-600-3657 Mobile: +49-178-782-6226