py27-healpy build failure

[rhiannon.lynne@…]

port install py27-healpy fails. The build log has a message about an appropriate version of setuptools not existing, but this is because the build seems to be trying to use the incorrect version of python (using the built-in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/setuptools-2.1-py2.7.egg version) instead of the macports python (macports python is the default python and has a more recent version of setuptools - /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-5.7-py2.7.egg-info).

[rhiannon.lynne@…]

build log file.

[rhiannon.lynne@…]

Was able to work around by doing 'easyinstall -U setuptools' as message in build log suggested (but I still don't understand why the setup tools in the macports python wasn't used).

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

In the future, please Cc the port maintainers (port info --maintainers py27-healpy).

[lpsinger (Leo Singer)]

Replying to rhiannon.lynne@…:

Was able to work around by doing 'easyinstall -U setuptools' as message in build log suggested (but I still don't understand why the setup tools in the macports python wasn't used).

What version of setuptools is installed on your system? What does the following command print?

port installed py27-setuptools

[rhiannon.lynne@…]

Looks like I have a few versions.

[d-173-250-190-165:~/workshop] lynnej% port installed py27-setuptools
The following ports are currently installed:
  py27-setuptools @1.1.7_0
  py27-setuptools @1.4_0
  py27-setuptools @2.1_0
  py27-setuptools @2.1.2_0
  py27-setuptools @3.3_0
  py27-setuptools @3.6_0
  py27-setuptools @5.4.2_0
  py27-setuptools @5.7_0 (active)

[lpsinger (Leo Singer)]

It is very odd that it picked up setuptools from /Library. I can see from the build log that it ran setup.py with the correct Python interpreter, /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7. Could you try a clean build?

$ sudo port clean py27-healpy
$ sudo port install py27-healpy

[rhiannon.lynne@…]

I updated the setup tools in the /Library version of python, so I don't get a build log hanging around when I do that now (i.e. the build now works). However, I did do a port clean before trying to (re)install it after it failed the first time, and got the same error.

[lpsinger (Leo Singer)]

Please reopen if this is still an issue.