[AstroPy] installation problems on a mac

[Eric L. N. Jensen]

Hi Stephen,

For what it’s worth, I’ve had good luck on the Mac (using OS X 10.7 up to 10.9) with both anaconda and Ureka.  Both of them come with astropy already installed, but I’ve also had no problems updating astropy within those environments using the standard tools. 

I know this doesn’t answer your original question, and no one likes being told to ditch their installed distribution and get another, but I just thought I’d share this in case you’re considering a different distro. 

Eric


On Jun 25, 2014, at 10:35 AM, Michael Droettboom <mdroe at stsci.edu> wrote:

> Many of the gcc compiler flags that astropy uses come directly from the Python being used.  (This is how distutils, the standard Python tool that astropy uses to build itself, works).  The idea is that the compiler flags for the extensions should match the compiler flags that were used to build the Python interpreter they will be used with.
> 
> If you're using EPD python, that's probably the old SDK they used to build their Python (and it makes sense they would use an old one if they are trying to be as portable as possible).
> 
> Never being an EPD user, I don't know what the usual solution to this is.  You may try upgrading to Enthought Canopy or Anaconda, as I don't think EPD is being actively supported anymore.
> 
> Mike

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