This is needed because the system linker looks in /Library/Framework before
it looks in /System/Library frameworks. Without this patch _tkinter will
be unusable when it is compiled on a system that has Tk 8.5 installed in
/Library/Frameworks (and the Apple 8.4 install in /System/Library/Frameworks)
FreeBSD's P1003.1b semaphore support is highly experimental and
it's disabled by default. Even if a user loads the experimental
kernel module manually, _multiprocessing doesn't work correctly due
to several known incompatibilities around sem_unlink and sem_getvalue,
yet.
This patch adds a new configure argument on OSX:
--with-universal-archs=[32-bit|64-bit|all]
When used with the --enable-universalsdk option this controls which
CPU architectures are includes in the framework. The default is 32-bit,
meaning i386 and ppc. The most useful alternative is 'all', which includes
all 4 CPU architectures supported by MacOS X (i386, ppc, x86_64 and ppc64).
This includes limited support for the Carbon bindings in 64-bit mode as well,
limited because (a) I haven't done extensive testing and (b) a large portion
of the Carbon API's aren't available in 64-bit mode anyway.
I've also duplicated a feature of Apple's build of python: setting the
environment variable 'ARCHFLAGS' controls the '-arch' flags used for building
extensions using distutils.