Hi guys, 

I consider myself self-taught average geek. after a long time trying
many things to get python2.6.2 to build with macports it fails every
time until i used this specific argument in the work folder below

cd
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_python26/work/Python-2.6.2

configure and make as followed (this is what i know works, i know there
is possibly a shorter more proficient way to do this so don't blame me i
just got this thing to compile is all.)

sudo DEFAULT_ARCH=x86_64 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6 ./configure
--with-universal-archs=64-bit

Please share this among devs at macports Thought I'd mention my success
here first.

- Dylan Mahoney

oops forgot to mention i realized it was defaulted to /usr/local so i
tried compiling the same configuration except adding --prefix=/opt/local 

built fine

try using

sudo DEFAULT_ARCH=x86_64 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6 ./configure
--with-universal-archs=64-bit --prefix=/opt/local

Thanks for this.  Fixes to allow Python to build on Snow Leopard have 
already been applied to the svn repository, and will be included in the 
soon-to-appear Python 2.6.3 release.

If you have time, please do check out the svn source and verify that it 
builds for you.  The URL is:

http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/release26-maint

Instructions for working with Python svn are at:

http://www.python.org/dev/faq/

Thanks!
compiled cleanly @/opt/local
build is active.