> <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.