[gtk-osx-users] python and iconv issues

[Jesse van den Kieboom <jessevdk gnome org>]

I have been trying to compile different binaries (10.4/32, 10.5/64 and 10.6/64) on a Snow Leopard machine. Everything seems to be working (with some added patches), but there are two things remaining that I'm unsure of how to handle.

1) Python

I'm currently building python in jhbuild, in particular because otherwise the build for 10.4 does not succeed. I'm wondering though if this means that I will need to supply python with my package (I would rather not, since it takes a lot of space), or if I can still rely on the system python to be used? I read the comments on compiling python related stuff on a 64 bit machine (targetting a 32 bit sdk), but I'm not entirely sure I understand the consequences.

2) iconv

I'm having trouble with iconv because the native cups of OS X links against iconv, but the one built in jhbuild does not expose the _iconv symbol (this happens at least on Lion). I briefly noticed another mail on this list about this issue, but didn't understand completely what was the right way to resolve the issue. Should I simply not compile iconv as part of jhbuild but instead link against the native one?