[Pythonmac-SIG] problem with easy_install appscript

[has]

On Mar 29, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Daryl Spitzer wrote:

> Message body follows:
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> I ran `sudo easy_install appscript` and got:
> [...]
> No eggs found in /tmp/easy_install-I69t5P/appscript-0.19.0/egg-dist-
> tmp-Ufl4GP (setup script problem?)


Is gcc (part of Apple's Xcode developer tools suite) installed?

Have you put any non-fat dylibs on your system? (This was the previous  
poster's problem: they had built their own i386-only version of libPng  
which Carbon was seeing in /usr/local/lib instead of the fat version  
in /usr/lib. When setuptools tried to build a fat version of  
appscript, the linker failed when trying to find a PPC version of  
libPng.)

Could you run it with the verbose option enabled and post the  
resulting output (the -q option suppresses the build logs, which might  
contain clues).

easy_install error messages are lousy. Perhaps you could also speak to  
the setuptools developers?

BTW, there are several binary eggs on pypi, so if you're installing  
appscript for the 10.5's default 2.5 installation or the python.org  
2.5 or 2.6 framework distributions then it shouldn't need to build  
from source at all. (That said, I have my suspicions about  
easy_install's abilities to make the best choice when multiple options  
are available, but setuptools' shortcomings are a little beyond my ken.)

HTH

has
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