[lxml-dev] lxml Mac installation idea

[Ian Bicking]

Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Guntsche Michael wrote:
>> Here the last incarnation of my patch. I got rid of setting the  
>> environment variables and deleting them afterwards.
>> Should have done it like this in the first place.
> 
> Thanks a bunch. I rewrote the patch somewhat to restrict the changes to
> MacOS. If I didn't break it by doing that, the current trunk should work
> out-of-the-box now, if you pass "--static-deps" to setup.py, or set
> "STATIC_DEPS=true" in your env variables.
> 
> Anyone wants to give it a try?

I installed it on 10.5, with the system Python:

$ uname -a
Darwin mouna.openplans.org 9.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.0: Wed Sep  3 
11:29:43 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.7.58~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
$ sw_vers
ProductName:	Mac OS X
ProductVersion:	10.5.5
BuildVersion:	9F33

I had to run "make realclean" first to clean out the previous build 
(which had iconv problems).  For some reason the tests won't run because 
it can't find the library (I installed it in a virtualenv), even though 
when I run python directly lxml imports just fine.  selftest.py and 
selftest2.py run and work, though (I just noticed those, I'm not clear 
what they do?)


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