I keep doing the same ipfw commands over and over. Enough of that, here is my first applescript application every. Probably filled with bugs and other scary things, and I’m probably not the first one to do this, but I think I’m the first to stick the source out there.
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Building postgresql8x and psycopg2 for x86_64 and i386 on Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6)
I’ve recently installed Apple’s new 64 bit OS Snow Leopard, on my work computer. I use postgresql extensivly together with python, and usually use apple’s bundled python2.5 for working with django.
As the daredevil I am, I wanted to recompile all my macports to use the new 64 bit system, and therefore deleted them all, and made a fresh install of macports. After building the postgresql81 port, I was about to build the psycopg2 python postgresql driver for python 2.5, when it gave me a warning about not being able to find some symbols in the postgresql library it had linked to. I quickly realized that this might be an architecture problem, and sure enough, it turns out that python 2.5 is a i386/ppc and python 2.6 is x86_64/i386/ppc binary, as can be seen here: