[GRASS-dev] getting vdigit to compile correctly on the Mac

[William Kyngesburye]

On Sep 13, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Michael Barton wrote:

> Here is a link to discussion that may help explain why vdigit is not  
> compiling correctly on a Mac--especially with OX X 10.5 (Leopard)  
> that comes with Python 2.5--and a couple of solutions to fixing it.
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2008-January/ 
> 019628.html
>
I've suggested distutils before.  It just needs someone to write the  
setup.py script.

Also, your problem may be a bit different - it may be configure that's  
messing up.  Are the python flags in your platform.make pointing to  
the system python or the python.org python?

Configure uses python-config to get the configuration of python  
includes and libs.  If you just say "--with-python" (as I have in the  
example in the GRASS OSX readme) configure will try to find it in your  
PATH, and may be getting it wrong.

Try setting a path to python-config when configuring.  It should be / 
usr/local/bin/python-config (symlinks installed by python.org  
installer).  ie:

--with-python=/usr/local/bin/python-config


If configure is getting it right and it's still messing up the  
linking, another possibility is that the python.org python doesn't  
install lib symlinks in /usr/local/lib, so even though the library  
path is specified it may get the system python from /usr/lib.  It's  
not supposed to, but I've seen it happen with the system sqlite vs. my  
sqlite framework (though not recently, maybe the new Xcode has fixed  
this).


I could try it, but I don't want to mess up my MacBook by installing  
(for real) the python.org python (I like the system python), though I  
could try it on my Mini.

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