Ideally, the Python library loaded should be the same as the one that
_csnd.so links against at run-time. Is it safe to assume that
/Library/Frameworks is preferred even if /System/Library/Frameworks
was used at link time (i.e. are the library paths hardcoded into the
binaries) ?

On Monday 08 May 2006 20:23, Anthony Kozar wrote:

> Yes, finding Python on OS X is further complicated by the fact that Apple
> has changed how they provide Python with pretty much every release.
> 
> Here is what I *think* is correct, but I am not sure:
> 
> 10.4  Full MacPython distro as a framework in /Systems/Library/Frameworks
> 
> 10.3  Python 2.3? framework in /Systems/Library/Frameworks (no IDE though)
> 
> 10.2  Commandline Python 2.2 only in /usr/bin
> 
> 10.1 & 10.0  No Python installed by default
> 
> On my 10.2 system I also have installed a MacPython 2.3.5 framework and that
> went into /Library/Frameworks.  I think that the normal linking order on OS
> X finds /Library/Frameworks before it finds /System/Library/Frameworks, so
> that may be the prefered order.
> 
> I do not think I have ever seen a python library named like this:
> 
> >     "/usr/lib/libpython2.4.dylib",
> 
> but I may not have ever installed a commandline python with headers and
> libraries.
> 
> A reasonable search path might be
> 
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/Python
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/Python
> /usr/local/lib/libpython.dylib
> /opt/local/lib/libpython.dylib
> /sw/lib/libpython.dylib
> /usr/lib/libpython.dylib
> 
> where libpython.dylib is replaced by whatever the python library is called
> when installed as a "standard Unix" package instead of a Mac framework.
> (But users who install Python via Fink or Darwin Ports like I did on my 10.1
> computer may not have any library at all).
> 
> I have not exhaustively checked all of these facts ...


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