On May 1, 7:32 pm, Prabhu Ramachandran <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Sage developers,
Hi Prabhu,
> I tried to build Sage-3.4 on my intel macbook (Mac OS X 10.4.11). I
> have Xcode 2.5 installed and gcc-4.0.1. I downloaded the sage-3.4.tar,
> untarred it and ran make. I have macports installed so changed the PATH
> to remove anything from /opt. I also renamed /opt to something else in
> one attempt but both failed with the same error:
<SNIP>
> Searching the lists for this gave me this:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/e2fcb3...
>
> which isn't very helpful.
>
> After spending a little while figuring out what is wrong I realize that
> I've done something a little non-standard that broke things. I have
> a default ~/.pydistutils.cfg which reads like so:
>
> [install]
> install_lib = ~/Library/Python/$py_version_short/site-packages
> install_scripts = ~/usr/bin
>
> I completely forgot about this and my install logs indicated a large
> number of files being installed in the `install_lib` directory. So
> moving this .pydistutils.cfg out of the way helped resolve the problem
> and the build went well.
>
> I think this should be documented somewhere so others don't fall into
> the same trap. Thanks.
Cool. Thanks for telling us - I have made this #5961.
> cheers,
> prabhu
Cheers,
Michael
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