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We’re using this configure script with an option we spotted in the configure help menu:
./configure --with-universal-archs=32-bit --prefix="$HOME/python"
make
make install
But when all the dust is settled and we check out what it gives us:
✔python-3.1.1⤿ file ~/python/bin/python3
python/bin/python3: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
How do we compile it so we’re given a 32-bit python? We’re looking to use the uno module provided by OpenOffice, which requires 32-bit python.
There’s no need to build your own. Use the Python 3.1.1 OS X installer from python.org. It’s 32-bit only and will work just fine on OS X 10.4 through 10.6. If you need to install any packages with C extension modules on 10.6, you’ll need to install the optional 10.4 SDK from the the Snow Leopard Xcode mpkg and you’ll need to tell Distutils to use GCC 4.0: