Hello Greg, To make life difficult, I've been trying to build RDKit on MacOSX 10.5 but using the Fink-installed python2.5 and numpy (note: I'm using Fink unstable):
I'm a newbie to MacOSX. Fink is one of two options (also tried MacPorts - didn't work well enough) for package-managed installation of open source software. It's all installed into a new folder /sw and so doesn't interfere with anything already on the system. I'm trying to compile all components of cinfony on MacOSX; I can either figure out how to compile cairo and pycairo for the System Python, or I can install these with Fink (successfully!) and try to figure out how to compile RDKit for Fink's Python. In short, RDKit compiles fine but segfaults on "import Chem". I note that there's no need to compile boost-build, as a bjam executable for mac is included in the boost source distribution. There's one loose end I want to chase up (I want to make sure it's using the boost libs I compiled myself, rather than any Fink boost libs), but apart from that I'm all out of ideas. If it compiles fine, it should work, right? If I can get cairo compiled for the system python, I won't need to chase this up, but I just thought I let you know... Regards, Noel
