How to build 64-bit Python on OS X 10.6 — ONLY 64 bit, no Universal nonsense

Question

I just want to build this on my development machine -- the binary install from Python.org is still 32 bits and installing extensions (MySQLdb, for example) is driving me nut

Answer 1

Always macports... sheesh

This is what I did:

~: wget http://python.org/ftp/python/2.6.5/Python-2.6.5.tar.bz2
~: tar xjf Python-2.6.5.tar.bz2
~: cd Python-2.6.5
~: ./configure ./configure MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6 --enable-framework --with-universal-archs="64-bit" CFLAGS="-arch x86_64" LDFLAGS="-arch x86_64"
~: make -j6
~: sudo make install

Might be a little redundant on the FLAGS stuff, but it worked.