Re: [gtk-osx-users] Building on PPC fails

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Jan 15, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Steffen Gutmann <muibase yahoo com> wrote:

> Hi John!
> 
>> You did misunderstand. Jhbuild itself needs python 2.5 or later, so you must 
>> build python before meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap.
> 
> 
> Well, I am building on PPC/Leopard but the web page https://live.gnome.org/GTK+/OSX/Building says:
> 
> "Note: jhbuild requires Python 2.5 to unpack tar files, but Tiger provides Python 2.3. We provide a Python 2.7 module, which you can build like so:"
> 
> 
> which made me assume that I only need to install the jhbuild version of python when building on Tiger (and not for Tiger).
> 
> Anyway, not a problem really.

Ah, in that case you understood correctly. I use Leopard to build PPC builds too and don't build python unless the package needs it.

Regards,
John Ralls