On Friday, October 13, 2006, at 12:36PM, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>To be fair, (thanks to Ronald) the Mac build is entirely automated by
>a script with the caveat that you should be a little careful about
>what your environment looks like (e.g. don't install fink or macports,
>or to move them out of the way when building). 

That (the "don't install Fink or macports" part) is because setup.py explicitly 
adds those directories to the library and include search path. IMHO that is a 
misfeature because it is much to easy to accidently contaminate a build that 
way. Fink and macports can easily add their directories to the search paths 
using OPTS and LDFLAGS, there's no need to automate this in setup.py.

The beauty of macports is that /opt/local is the default prefix, but you can 
easily pick another prefix and most ports work fine that way (or rather not 
worse than with the default prefix).

Ronald

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