Homebrew is generally a bit nicer than MacPorts, as it doesn’t require lots of sudo action. Here’s an article that guided me to upgrading my install of bash: http://concisionandconcinnity.blogspot.com/2009/03/upgrade-bash-to-40-in-mac-os-x.html As for steps: Install Homebrew from the docs on their homepage Install Git using Homebrew (optional, but nice to have a more up-to-date git) brew install … Read more
Thanks to @jessenoller on Twitter I have an answer that fits my needs – you can compile lxml with static dependencies, hence avoiding messing with the libxml2 that ships with OS X. Here’s what worked for me: cd /tmp curl -O http://lxml.de/files/lxml-3.6.0.tgz tar -xzvf lxml-3.6.0.tgz cd lxml-3.6.0 python setup.py build –static-deps –libxml2-version=2.7.3 –libxslt-version=1.1.24 sudo python … Read more
There’s nothing inherently wrong with having multiple versions of Python around. Sometimes it’s a necessity when using applications with version dependencies. Probably the biggest issue is dealing with site-package dependencies which may vary from app to app. Tools like virtualenv can help there. One thing you should not do is attempt to remove the Apple-supplied … Read more
Command line usage for all configure scripts: cd /usr/bin rm cc gcc c++ g++ ln -s gcc-4.2 cc ln -s gcc-4.2 gcc ln -s c++-4.2 c++ ln -s g++-4.2 g++ Make a record of the current link targets, so you can restore them if you want to. If you don’t want to change the system … Read more
From the Apple Developer Forum (account required): “The compiler and linker are capable of using features and performing optimizations that do not work on older OS versions. -mmacosx-version-min tells the tools what OS versions you need to work with, so the tools can disable optimizations that won’t run on those OS versions. If you need … Read more
The quick answer is: Yes, we can! Before I get to the “how it is done” part, here are some notes about my patch/hack/fix. Right from the start the major goals have been: Keep all modifications to an absolute minimum. We want to keep the Xcode setups as original as possible. By all means, try … Read more