improving PL/Python builds on OS X
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-12-21T17:45:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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- pg-python-framework.patch (text/plain) patch
The PL/Python build on OS X is currently hardcoded to use the system Python install. If you try to override this when running configure, you get a mysterious mix-and-match build. If you want to build against your own Python build, or MacPorts or Homebrew, you can't. This is straightforward to fix. In configure, besides checking Python include and library paths, we can also check whether it's a framework build and the right parameters for that. The attached patch does that and does the job for me. Please test it. One constraint, which is explained in the comment in src/pl/plpython/Makefile is that in Python <2.5, there is no official way to detect either framework builds or shared libpython builds, so we can't support those versions on OS X, at least without more hardcoding of things. I'd rather phase some of that out, but if someone needs to continue to use Python 2.4 or earlier on OS X, let me know. (Or more proper fix would be to split DLSUFFIX into two variables, but that seems more work than it's worth right now.)