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

[david]

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.

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