[lxml-dev] Help getting lxml to work reliably on MacOS-X

[js]

> - what package management system (fink/macports) do you use?
MacPorts

> - are you using the stock Python or one that is installed separately?
Python2.5.1 from  MacPorts

> - what library versions are you using of libxml2, libxslt, zlib, libiconv?
% port installed |egrep 'libxml2|xslt|zlib|iconv'
  libiconv @1.12_0+darwin_8 (active)
  libxml2 @2.6.31_0 (active)
  libxslt @1.1.22_0 (active)
  py25-zlib @2.5.1_0 (active)
  zlib @1.2.3_1 (active)

> - which library versions are preinstalled on your platform?
>   (I do not know how to find that out, can anyone provide instructions here?)
What library?

> - what library versions does lxml.etree find? (see below)
from lxml import etree
print "lxml.etree:       ", etree.LXML_VERSION
lxml.etree:        (2, 0, 0, 0)
print "libxml used:      ", etree.LIBXML_VERSION
libxml used:       (2, 6, 31)
print "libxml compiled:  ", etree.LIBXML_COMPILED_VERSION
libxml compiled:   (2, 6, 31)
print "libxslt used:     ", etree.LIBXSLT_VERSION
libxslt used:      (1, 1, 22)
print "libxslt compiled: ", etree.LIBXSLT_COMPILED_VERSION
libxslt compiled:  (1, 1, 22)

> - does it crash when running the normal tests?
Ran 1101 tests in 12.232s

FAILED (errors=14)
make: *** [test_inplace] Error 1