[reportlab-users] Installation issue in Mac OS Big Sur

[Robin Becker]

Hi Mathieu,

thanks for the report. You can report issues at the users list see

https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/reportlab-users

So macintosh is now deprecated. I guess there's an OSX flag or somesuch.

 From the fact that you are building the package yourself I assume that this
pypi package doesn't work for you on you improved OS

https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/84/56/21501baa7e6b9a0791711b89d66c66c70f68837549f6a6ed008e563638ff/reportlab-3.5.55-cp39-cp39-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl 
which I build with multibuild on travis.


Unfortunately multibuild hasn't advanced beyond 10.9, but perhaps that's an issue with travis as well.
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> I found a workaround here:
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64871133/reportlab-installation-failed-after-upgrading-to-macos-big-sur
> 
> It seems that `defined(macintosh)` does not evaluate to true on the Big Sur
> operating system.
> 
> I Was able to build from source by modifying this file:
> src/rl_addons/renderPM/gt1/gt1-namecontext.c
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Robin Becker