Re: [Pysparse-users] build problem

[Dominique O. <dom...@gm...>]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Ranjit Chacko <rjc...@gm...> wrote:
> I just tried to build pysparse on my mac running 10.5.8 and it failed with
> the message below. Why did it fail?
>>>python setup.py install

[snip]

> gcc -g -L/usr/local/lib
> -L/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/5.0.0/lib -bundle -undefined
> dynamic_lookup build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/Src/spmatrixmodule.o -o
> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/pysparse/spmatrix.so
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/../../../libSystem.dylib
> unknown flags (type) of section 6 (__TEXT,__literal16) in load command 0
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Hi Ranjit,

I am not entirely sure but my first guess would be that you upgraded
to 10.5.8 without upgrading/installing Xcode. Try installing the
latest Xcode and let us know if that did it.

Thanks for trying out Pysparse!

-- 
Dominique