[yt-users] Python Compilation Error while Installing Stable yt on OS X 10.10.3

[Nathan Goldbaum]

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Madison Fitzgerald <fitzg152 at msu.edu>
wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I’m just starting out with yt (I’m using the stable version available on
> the website,
> https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/raw/stable/doc/install_script.sh),
> and I’m running into a problem when yt tries to install python after I
> execute bash ./install_script.sh. I have gcc version 4.9.3. Looking through
> the archives and google haven’t given me a solution. Additionally, my
> professor hasn’t seen this error before and can’t figure it out, but he
> thinks it might be a 10.10 specific problem that y’all could help me with.
>

On OSX you probably shouldn't be building using gcc.  Instead, you should
be building using clang (the default compiler on OSX) from the xcode
command line tools.

In principle, python should compile using gcc on OSX 10.10, but I doubt
it's commonly done.


>
> ********************************************
>         FAILURE REPORT:
> ********************************************
>
>                  from /usr/include/stdio.h:65,
>                  from Include/Python.h:33,
>                  from Python/mactoolboxglue.c:26:
> //System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/FSEvents.framework/Headers/FSEvents.h:262:38:
> error: expected ',' or '}' before '__attribute__'
>    kFSEventStreamCreateFlagIgnoreSelf __OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING(__MAC_10_6,
> __IPHONE_6_0) = 0x00000008,
>                                       ^
> //System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/FSEvents.framework/Headers/FSEvents.h:414:38:
> error: expected ',' or '}' before '__attribute__'
>    kFSEventStreamEventFlagItemCreated __OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING(__MAC_10_7,
> __IPHONE_6_0) = 0x00000100,
>                                       ^
> make: *** [Python/mactoolboxglue.o] Error 1
>
> ********************************************
> ********************************************
>
> I’ve attached my install_script and yt_install.log, which detail the
> specific error and which version of the install_script I’m using.
>
> Thank you very much,
> Madison Fitzgerald
>
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