The current OS X installer builder has no provision for changing the
architecture type or deployment target to allow different installer
types, such as 4-way universal, to be built.  The attached patch
allows for builds on systems other than 10.4 and adds two new
arguments to build-installer.py:

  --dep-target=10.n, [default 10.3]
  --universal-archs=x
         where x =
           '32-bit' -> 2-way 32-bit (intel|ppc) [default]
           '64-bit' -> 2-way 64-bit (intel|ppc)
           'all'    -> 4-way universal

The default values are the current hard-coded ones.

I'm +1 on this feature, I haven't looked at the patch yet.

Committed as r70737 (trunk), r70738 (2.6), r70739 (3.1)


There is a small issue related to the bsddb3 tests with a 4-way universal 
build on the trunk and 2.6, I'll look into that in the near future.

Not sure why this was assigned to me.

Raymond: I had intended to assign the issue to myself but I obviously need 
more training with dropdown menu's (your name is just above mine in the 
assigned-to menu).

Closing this issue because it was fixed a while back. The bsddb test 
failure I rever to in my previous message turned out to be a non-issue: 
these tests just take a very long time to finish.