[egenix-users] Issues building mxBase on OS X 10.6

[M.-A. Lemburg]

david wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm having problems installing mxBase on my new Snow Leopard system.
> It doesn't matter if I start with a binary package or from source, the
> result is the same.

This is a problem with Python and some assumptions made by distutils
which are no longer true for Mac OS X 10.6.

While I've seen a few patches go in for Python 2.6, I don't think they'll
be backported to 2.5.

The mention of the 10.4 SDK in the sysroot parameter looks strange.
Perhaps that causes the problems ?!

> Here is the output:
> 
> $ python setup.py install
> running install
> no build data file 'build/build-py2.5_ucs2.pck' found
> running build
> running mx_autoconf
> checking for availability of strptime()
> gcc -arch ppc -arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk
> -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp -mno-fused-madd
> -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -D_GNU_SOURCE=1
> -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include
> -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/include -c
> _configtest.c -o _configtest.o
> cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-long-double"
> cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-long-double"
> lipo: can't figure out the architecture type of: /var/tmp//cc4XyWUa.out
> failure.
> removing: _configtest.c _configtest.o
> checking compiler for bad static forward handling
> gcc -arch ppc -arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk
> -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp -mno-fused-madd
> -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -D_GNU_SOURCE=1
> -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/include/python2.5
> -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include
> -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/include -c
> _configtest.c -o _configtest.o
> cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-long-double"
> cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-long-double"
> lipo: can't figure out the architecture type of: /var/tmp//ccynFFmT.out
> failure.
> 
> 
> And so on. I am also having the same "lipo: can't figure out the
> architecture type..." message when trying to build psycopg2, so I
> understand this isn't specific to mxBase. I'm new to Mac and am having
> zero luck figuring this one out. I have found a limited amount of
> discussion about this error, but it seems to usually come down to
> "sounds like your build environment is hosed" - which seems odd to me,
> because this is a brand new install.
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> David
> 
> 
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