On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Andrew Jaffe <a.h.jaffe@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16/05/2011 18:45, Ralf Gommers wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Andrew Jaffe <a.h.jaffe@gmail.com
> <mailto:a.h.jaffe@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear all,
>
>     I have OSX 10.6.7, XCode 4, and Python.org python 2.6.6 and 2.7.1, where
>     2.7 is 64-bit.
>
>     With 2.7, easy_install successfully compiles and installs the package,
>     both over the web and with an explicit download.
>
>     With 2.6, there seems to be a problem with attempting to compile the PPC
>     architecture, seen in this error.
>
> Please just use "python setup.py install", easy_install is very unreliable.
>
>
>     /usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin10/4.0.1/as: assembler
>     (/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as or
>     /usr/bin/../local/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as) for architecture ppc not
>     installed
>
> XCode 4 does not support PPC, use version 3.2. Then it should work as
> advertized.

Aha, thanks!

But they're both installed, but how do force this?

You have to figure out where the right compiler is located. Then try "export CC=/path/to/compiler". Or if you have MacPorts installed you can use its gcc_select. Or google for another solution.
 
(Does 64-bit 2.7 not care about PPC?)

No, it's an Intel 32 + 64-bit bundle.

Cheers,
Ralf