[Pythonmac-SIG] Packmanager (appleDevTools)

[Israel C. Evans]

That is indeed what I was doing..
I was forcing or overwriting the PyObjC package.

Thanks.
Glad to know what that was.


On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 12:46  PM, Jack Jansen wrote:

>
> On dinsdag, jul 29, 2003, at 19:51 Europe/Amsterdam, Israel C. Evans 
> wrote:
>
>> I've been trying to install PyObjC through the package manager and at 
>> the end I'm told that the AppleDevTools need to be installed >> manually.
>> Does this refer to the Apple Developer tools from the extra developer 
>> tools cd that came with macOSX 10.2 or to something else?
>>
>> I have installed the the developer tools, but am I missing something 
>> here?
>
> Most likely is that you've come across a bug that I forgot to fix: if 
> you set the "force"
> flag on a source install you get a spurious message about having to 
> install the devtools
> by hand. It's very silly, really: the force flag is recursive, so it 
> also tries to
> force-install all dependent packages, hence also the devtools, hence 
> the error. The "force"
> flag shouldn't be recursive but only apply to the package you're 
> actually asking to install.
>
> If this isn't what's happening then we should debug it. Could you send 
> me the output of
> "ls -ld /Developer/Tools"?
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