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

[Madison Fitzgerald]

Britton and Nathan,

Thank you! Yes, that fixed my problem!

Best,
Madison Fitzgerald

Astrophysics | Lyman Briggs College
Women’s & Gender Studies | College of Arts & Letters
LGBTQ and Sexuality Studies Specialization
Women in Science, President
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Honors College
Michigan State University

> On May 18, 2015, at 5:42 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Madison,
> 
> Just to follow up on this, I happened to have the exact same problem at about the same time.  Following Nathan's suggestion, I did:
> export CC=clang
> export CXX=clang++
> 
> and removed the old installation and started the install script from scratch.  This worked for me.
> 
> Britton
> 
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com <mailto:nathan12343 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Madison Fitzgerald <fitzg152 at msu.edu <mailto: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 <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
> 
> Astrophysics | Lyman Briggs College
> Women’s & Gender Studies | College of Arts & Letters
> LGBTQ and Sexuality Studies Specialization
> Women in Science, President
> Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
> Undergraduate Research Assistant
> Department of Physics and Astronomy
> Honors College
> Michigan State University
> 
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