Re: Building psycopg2 2.4.4 on Mac OS X Lion

From: Daniele Varrazzo <daniele(dot)varrazzo(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Melton Low <softw(dot)db(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: psycopg(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Building psycopg2 2.4.4 on Mac OS X Lion
Date: 2011-12-19 18:18:41
Message-ID: CA+mi_8arwnWKOKc32KCuH+wy_KGt-4JoxxE2wH09WXTALD8W0g@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Melton Low <softw(dot)db(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Just a quick note.  For those of us on Mac OS X Lion running the latest
> xCode 4.2.1, the compiler is now a symbolic link as 'gcc' or 'llvm-gcc-4.2'.
>  There is no binary or link called 'gcc-4.2'.  Running setup on 2.4.4 fails
> with executable 'gcc-4.2' not found.

This seems a distutils problem. Widely googlable. Every new mac
release seems breaking building python extensions. Every time in a
different way. This can't be our problem: psycopg is not different
from other C python extension. Please use a packaged version of
psycopg, or the experimental ctypes version instead.

-- Daniele

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