[Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: distutils and stdarg.h

[Russell E. Owen]

In article <nad-D7677E.15460414022012 at news.gmane.org>,
 Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:

>...
> You *may* have run into a bug I've noticed a while back in Xcode 3.2.6.  
> The Xcode installer appears to screw up the symlinks to /Library within 
> /Developer/SDKs.  The net effect is that frameworks installed in 
> /Library, like A/S Tcl and Tk, are not found during a build using the 
> SDK as they should be.
> 
> $ cd /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/Library
> $ ls -l
> total 8
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  19 Mar 17 18:24 Frameworks@ -> 
> /Library/Frameworks
> 
> it ends up with an extra Frameworks directory so that
> 
> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/Library/Frameworks/Frameworks/ -> 
> /Library/Frameworks
> 
> The solution is to manually go in and fix the symlinks in 
> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk, and remember to do so again if you have 
> to reinstall Xcode 3.2.6.  AFAIK, this bug is unique to Xcode 3.2.6, not 
> earlier versions of 3.2.x.

My symlinks are broken as you describe (though oddly 
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/Library/Frameworks contains both the 
symlink Frameworks->Library/Frameworks that you mentioned and also 
PluginManager.framework).

I'll fix it and try building matplotlib again. Thank you very much!

-- Russell