[lxml-dev] lxml Mac installation idea

[Paul Everitt]

On Nov 17, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Michael Guntsche wrote:
>
> Paul, please completely clean up everything from the previous build  
> (best just make a clean checkout) and try again.

I blew away my trunk directory, re-checked it out, and put the  
buildlibxml.py with your two changes from the patch back in place.  No  
luck, same error.

> If this still does not work set MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 before  
> starting the compilation.
>
> 	$ export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3

I got a new trunk, the patched buildlibxml.py, and very quickly got:

$ python setup.py build --static-deps
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "setup.py", line 13, in ?
     import pkg_resources
   File "/Users/paul/venvs/lxmltrunk/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ 
setuptools-0.6c9-py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 657, in ?
     class Environment(object):
   File "/Users/paul/venvs/lxmltrunk/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ 
setuptools-0.6c9-py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 660, in Environment
     def __init__(self, search_path=None,  
platform=get_supported_platform(), python=PY_MAJOR):
   File "/Users/paul/venvs/lxmltrunk/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ 
setuptools-0.6c9-py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 55, in  
get_supported_platform
     plat = get_build_platform(); m = macosVersionString.match(plat)
   File "/Users/paul/venvs/lxmltrunk/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ 
setuptools-0.6c9-py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 187, in  
get_build_platform
     plat = get_platform()
   File "/Users/paul/opt/Python-2.4.5/lib/python2.4/distutils/ 
util.py", line 78, in get_platform
     cfgvars = get_config_vars()
   File "/Users/paul/opt/Python-2.4.5/lib/python2.4/distutils/ 
sysconfig.py", line 488, in get_config_vars
     func()
   File "/Users/paul/opt/Python-2.4.5/lib/python2.4/distutils/ 
sysconfig.py", line 373, in _init_posix
     raise DistutilsPlatformError(my_msg)
distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: $MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET  
mismatch: now "10.3" but "10.5" during configure


--Paul