[egenix-users] Error compiling egenix-mx-base (again)

[Leonardo Santagada]

other extensions like cython, pillow, simplejson and others that have
C modules all compile just fine, is this going to be fixed or should I
try installing python from homebrew?

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:50 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> Leonardo Santagada wrote:
>> Every time I try to pip install egenix-mx-base in a different machine
>> it errors out, does it pay off to override distutils/distribute
>> internals?
>
> I think you should ask that question to the setuptools author :-)
>
> mxSetup tries very hard to extend distutils using the way it was
> designed for. setuptools/distribute doesn't care that much and
> as a result breaks distutils in many different incompatible ways.
>
> But in your case, the cause appears to be yet another MacApple quirk
> that's not really related to any overrides, but instead to the way
> distutils and the Python configuration system works.
>
>> This time I think is because distutils/distribute uses
>> clang when it doesn't find gcc-4.2 but your code do not. I'm also
>> pasting the error when I create a gcc-4.2 symbolic link pointing to
>> clang:
>> ...
>
> See here:
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue13590
> "extension module builds fail with python.org OS X installers on OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2"
>
> The problem is that the installers on python.org where built on a
> machine with gcc-4.2. This information is written into the
> Python config files and whenever Python tries to compile an extension,
> it uses that information again.
>
> If you then try to build extensions on a system that doesn't have
> gcc-4.0, distutils will fail.
>
> BTW: We've long given up using the Apple or python.org supplied
> installers for Mac OS X and always compile Python from source on our
> machines. There are simply too many bugs/weird configuration things
> to work around when using the Apple or python.org versions.
>
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Leonardo Santagada