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

[Mike Meyer]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:30:32 +0100 Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Fabien wrote:
> >>  - what package management system (fink/macports) do you use?
> > macports
> > 
> >>  - are you using the stock Python or one that is installed separately?
> > the stock Python bundled with Leopard
> > 
> >>  - what library versions are you using of libxml2, libxslt, zlib, libiconv?
> > $ port installed |egrep 'libxml2|xslt|zlib|iconv'
> >   libiconv @1.12_0 (active)
> >   libxml2 @2.6.31_0 (active)
> >   libxslt @1.1.22_0 (active)
> >   zlib @1.2.3_1 (active)
> > 
> > When I'm trying to make the install, I get the following errors :
> > 
> > MacBook-Pro:Downloads jibaku$ sudo easy_install lxml==2.0.2
> > Searching for lxml==2.0.2
> > Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/lxml/
> > Reading http://codespeak.net/lxml
> > Best match: lxml 2.0.2
> > Downloading http://codespeak.net/lxml/lxml-2.0.2.tgz
> > Processing lxml-2.0.2.tgz
> > Running lxml-2.0.2/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
> > /tmp/easy_install--6uwin/lxml-2.0.2/egg-dist-tmp-25cVmi
> > Building lxml version 2.0.2.
> > NOTE: Trying to build without Cython, pre-generated 'src/lxml/etree.c'
> > needs to be available.
> > warning: no previously-included files found matching 'doc/pyrex.txt'
> > ld warning: in /opt/local/lib/libxslt.dylib, file is not of required
> > architecture
> > ld warning: in /opt/local/lib/libexslt.dylib, file is not of required
> > architecture
> 
> Just guessing, but this looks like a problem with your setup. It seems to use
> the correct libraries in /opt/local (although it doesn't look like building
> anything here). But somehow they do not seem to fit either your Python or the
> compiler, so apparently it can't build against them. Is this on Intel or PPC?
> 
> Maybe others can comment on this?

IIRC, macports builds binaries for your system, not universal
binaries. /usr/bin/python, on the other hand, is a universal
binary. See if the library ports have a universal variant, and if so,
try installing that.

    <mike
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