[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app: Bombing on unknown load command 27

[Joel Gluck]

Thanks, Chris -- very clear and useful guidance!
I will roll up my sleeves and get into this as soon as time allows...
-- Joel

On Jan 5, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:

> Joel Gluck wrote:
>> Question: when I ran easy_install for py2app as you suggested, it  
>> returned an error:
>
> Well, I'm not setuptools expert, but I notice the following:
>
>> *Joel-Glucks-iMac:~ joel$ easy_install py2app==dev*
>
> ...
>
>> *(Currently using setuptools 0.6c7
>
> so in this case, setuptools 0.6c7 is begin used.
>
> ...
>
>> *setuptools 0.6c9 is already the active version in easy-install.pth*
>
> But now setuptools itself thinks it's already 0.6c9, so it hasn't  
> updated anything.
>
> ...
>
>
>> *Installing easy_install script to /Users/joel/bin*
>> *Installing easy_install-2.5 script to /Users/joel/bin*
>
> here setuptools has put the easy_install script in your home dir,  
> rather than the default script directory. For instance, easy_install  
> is here:
>
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/easy_install
>
> on my system. typing "which easy_install" may help you figure out  
> what's getting used.
>
> So:
>
> I suspect you are having issues with multiple different copies of  
> setuptools and/or python.
>
> I'd make sure that you are using the python you think you are.
>
> You might also want to clean out setuptools and re-installs -- I  
> don't know of any way to do this automatically, but you can delete  
> stuff from site-packages and ALSO from easy_install.pth
>
> Take a look at how PATH is being set also:
>
> echo $PATH
>
> and look in your .bash_profile or wherever your shell PATH is being  
> added to, so that's it's set up right for you.
>
> -Chris
>
>
>
>
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