Re: Making PostgreSQL 7.4 (CVS) work properly on OS X 10.3 (7B85)

On Nov 8, 2003, at 3:19 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Bob Ippolito <bob(at)redivi(dot)com> writes:
>> * I ditched the system.c hack, assuming Apple has fixed them by 10.3
>> --
>> because it breaks tcl and python if you do.. I did:
>
> After fixing the ps_status problems, I cannot observe any problem, with
> or without system.c. However, I agree that it's a bad idea to
> propagate
> that hack forward when it's no longer needed. I've #ifdef'd out
> system.c for OS X 10.3 and later. (I was tempted to disable it on
> 10.2.* as well, but I can only prove system() works in 10.2.6, not
> having older OS X handy to test.)

Sounds great

>> Ok, that's not quite true, so:
>> I edited src/Makefile.global to have
>> python_libspec = -framework Python
>
> I'm not going to touch that at this point in the release cycle. It'll
> just have to wait for a future release.

That's fine, does anyone even use plpython? I only compiled it because
I knew how to fix it..

-bob